Study on the Significance of Hyperlipidemia in Arteriosclerotic Vascular Accidents

Abstract

Four humdred and twnety arteriosclerotic patients with or without hyperlipidemia have been followed up for seven years epidemiologically. It has been clearified that cerebral infarction and ischemic heart disease have been found with higher incidence in the hyperlipidemic group.
Intimate correlation in the incidence have been found between hypercholesterolemia and ischemic heart disease and between hypertriglyceridemia and cerbral infarction.