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The effect of a polyunsaturated diet upon adipose-tissue fatty acids in young coronary males. A five-year cohort study

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The fatty acid composition in the adipose tissue of 38 electrocardiographycally confirmed coronary males, mean age 43.7 years, at ideal weight on a 30%-of-calories controlled-fat diet, containing approximately 11.4% of calories as linoleic acid, was studied. The initial linoleic acid concentration in the adipose tissue was approximately 11 mole % of total fatty acids; for approximately the first 12 months it rose slightly and then rapidly increased to about 20% after 24 months. The overall response is sigmoidal in form and fits the equation: 1/y=0.025+0.066 (0.975)x in which y represents the adipose tissue linoleate as mole percentage of total adipose tissue fatty acids and x is the time in months.

The relative increase in linoleic acid is not attributable to a decrease in any specific fatty acid.

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  1. Atherosclerosis Research Group, St. Vincent's Hospital, 07042, Montclair, New Jersey

    Alan I. Fleischman, Thomas Hayton, Marvin L. Bierenbaum & Portia Watson

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Fleischman, A.I., Hayton, T., Bierenbaum, M.L. et al. The effect of a polyunsaturated diet upon adipose-tissue fatty acids in young coronary males. A five-year cohort study. Lipids 3, 147–150 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02531732

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