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Serum Cholesterol in Acute Starvation: A Report of 20 Cases

Clinical Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital and the Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Twenty volunteers were subjected to periods of starvation ranging from two to 5 days. Four general groups were included: Young males between the ages of 21 to 35, young females between the ages of 20 to 32, males over 50 years of age, and patients with atherosclerosis from 49 to 70 years of age. In the data at present available, almost all the young males showed a rise in serum cholesterol. The older white males had less elevation than that of the younger male subjects and the atherosclerotic group showed a completely different curve from that of the other groups. Additional data will be necessary before a complete evaluation is possible.