Abstract
The mortality from coronary heart-disease (C.H.D.) and other causes was studied in two mental hospitals during a long-term (twelve-year) controlled preventive trial. The trial was cross-over in design. In one of the hospitals a serum-cholesterol-lowering diet was introduced and the other hospital using a normal diet served as the control. After six years the diets were reversed, and the trial was continued for six more years. In men, the use of the cholesterol-lowering diet was associated with considerably and significantly reduced mortality from C.H.D. Total mortality also was consistently lower on this diet, although the differences were too small for statistical significance. In women, the mortality from C.H.D. also appeared to be lower during the diet period, but the differences were small and not significant. In female total mortality no appreciable differences were found.
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