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Study of 111 Obese Men 50-59 Years Old

NORMAN JOLLIFFE, M.D.; SEYMOUR H. RINZLER, M.D.; MORTON ARCHER, M.S.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;109(5):566-572.

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In 1957, the Diet and Coronary Heart Disease Study Project of the Department of Health of the City of New York was organized to evaluate the role of diet^1,2 in the prevention of clinical coronary heart disease. In 1959, we reported³ the effect of our prudent diet on the serum cholesterol levels of 79 normal weight men, 50-59 years of age, who had adhered to the diet for at least 6 months. We later extended this report to 97 men who had followed the diet for at least 6 months and to 54 for at least 1 year.⁴ The present study deals with the overweight segment of our 50-59-year-old group and the effect of the prudent reducing diet on serum cholesterol levels.⁵

Materials and Methods

Details of the material and methods have been recently reviewed.⁶ The control serum cholesterol levels were determined by the Anderson-Keys . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

Diet and Coronary Heart Disease Study Project and the Bureau of Nutrition, Department of Health, New York.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 25, 1961.

Read before the Section on Internal Medicine at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 25-30, 1961.

This study was supported in part by the New York Heart Association, The Nutrition Clinics Fund, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and the Williams Waterman Fund of The Research Corporation.

Dr. Jolliffe died Aug. 1, 1961.

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