INTERCORRELATION OF SERUM CHOLESTEROL, CIGARETTE-SMOKING AND BODY-WEIGHT - OSLO STUDY

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 200  (6) , 479-485
Abstract
A screening for coronary risk factors in 18,000 Oslo, Norway, men yielded 16,525 healthy men, aged 20-49. The intercorrelation of serum cholesterol, body weight and cigarette smoking was found to be more pronounced than described in other studies. Increasing daily exposure to cigarette smoke in the order: never-smoker, ex-smoker, non-inhaling smoker, inhaling smoker and present non-filter smoker, was paralleled by increasing cholesterol levels, but not by increasing body weight. Daily cigarette-smokers had lower body weight and higher serum cholesterol values than never-cigarette-smokers, with the exception of the 20+ cigarette-smokers who had higher serum cholesterol values and body weight than the never-cigarette-smokers. As regards ex-cigarette-smokers, both body weight and serum cholesterol tended to increase with the number of cigarettes smoked before quitting. Possible explanations of these findings are discussed.

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