出版社:American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要:Cholesterol absorption measurements were carried out in a free-living out-patient population by a plasma isotope-ratio method previously validated for in-patients (Samuel, P., J. R. Crouse and E. H. Ahrens, Jr., 1978. J. Lipid Res. 19: 82-93). To test the reproducibility of the method in out-patients, 18 patients were tested twice: the mean intra-assay variability was +/- 6.0%. The method was then applied in 150 hyperlipidemic male out-patients, ingesting a standardized diet containing 250mg cholesterol per day, who had been randomized into four different drug-treatment groups: 1) no medication, 2) clofibrate, (2g/day), 3) cholestyramine (16g/day), or 4) both clofibrate and cholestyramine. Cholesterol absorption (as percent of the oral dose) was increased in patients receiving cholestyramine (P