TY - JOUR AB - BRITISH 790 MEDICAL JOURNAL 26 MARCH 1977 Mistry, P, et al, Circulation, 1976, 54, suppl 11-178 (abstract). cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and age. The differences 33 Mahley, R W, Weisgraber, K H, and Innerarity, T, Circulation Research, between the Minnesota and Framingham groups are in the 1974, 35, 722. main those of interpretation rather than fact. Epidemiological Goldstein, J L, and Brown, M S, of and Clinical J3ournal Laboratory Medicine, 1975, 85, 15. considerations alone cannot decide how much emphasis we 35 Sigurdsson, G, Nicoll, A, and Lewis, B, European of Clinical J'ournal place on avoidance of obesity in preventing coronary should Investigation, 1976, 6, disease. and adipose tissue mass may influence serum Energy balance metabolism independently.29 Olefsky et a130 found that lipid when an isocaloric diet ofunchanged composition was resumed by individuals who had reduced their weight by dieting there was a substantial fall in both cholesterol and triglyceride con- centrations attributed to decreased lipoprotein synthesis. The effects of energy balance are themselves complex. Do serum Patients with delusions of parasitosis have an erroneous but lipids respond to changes in energy intake irrespective of the unshakable belief that their skin is infested by a parasite. This source, or TI - Delusions of parasitosis. JO - British Medical Journal DO - 10.1136/bmj.1.6064.790 DA - 1977-03-26 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/british-medical-journal/delusions-of-parasitosis-4xUuq4YUOS SP - 790 EP - 791 VL - 1 IS - 6064 DP - DeepDyve ER -