Preliminary Report on Coronary Lesions and Serum Lipids Before and After 2 Years Dietary Intervention in 22 Patients

It is of importance to examine if certain interventional procedures can possibly influence the rate of progress of coronary sclerosis in man. In femoral atherosclerosis, Blankenhorn has already shown that computer estimate of atherosclerosis percent change was significantly correlated with triglyceride and cholesterol level (1). Recently Blankenhorn has also shown that coronary atherosclerosis regression studies can be done with computer processed angiograms and, that comparison between human and computer measures on diameter stenosis can be satisfactory (2). The importance of the influence of the diet on coronary atherosclerosis has recently once more been underscored in an impressive way by the study of Hjermann et al, where it was shown in middle-aged men at high risk of CHD that advice to change eating habits and to stop smoking significantly reduced the incidence of the first event of myocardial infarction and sudden death (3).