Abstract
A MARKED tendency to atherosclerosis and to elevated levels of serum lipid is a feature of diabetes mellitus familiar to most physicians. Although the causal relation between elevated serum lipid levels and atherosclerosis cannot be regarded as proved, it is natural to consider, in the treatment of diabetes, measures found to be effective in lowering lipid levels in nondiabetic persons. Among these measures restriction of the proportion of calories in the diet furnished by fat (especially saturated fat) has received particularly wide attention.1 Certain animal studies — in dogs2 and rats3 — have shown a decrease in the hyperlipemia of . . .
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