Printed in U.S.A. Serum Cholesterol and Triglyceride

E PIi)EMIOLOGIC STUDIES liiiking tile serum cholesterol levels of population groups with the incidence of coronary heart dis-ease has stimulated much interest in de-fining not-ma! or desirable ranges of serum cholesterol (1-4). Another lipid parameter, the serum triglyceride level, has been de-scribeci l)y Albrink and! i\’Ian (5) “as the lipid abnormality operative in coronary artery disease. ” In addition, in 1965 tile Pi-esident’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer aIl(1 Stroke (6) stated! that “clistribu-tions of triglyceride levels in the general population are inadequately known. ” It, tiiei-efore, appeared appropriate to study both serum triglyceride and serum cho-lesterol levels in a population of males and females. Tile purpose of this study was to 1) de-termine the levels of tile serum cholesterol and serum triglyceride in the same in-dividual froin a single venous specimen