Lipid Factors in Atherosclerosis

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Abstract
THE etiology of atherosclerosis presents one of the most challenging problems in modern medical research. Before the last few decades, interest in arteriosclerosis lay chiefly in the field of pathology. Observations of the clinical incidence and post-mortem studies of coronary-artery disease led to the concept that arteriosclerosis was a direct consequence of aging. Recent studies pointing out the not infrequent occurrence of coronary occlusion in young adults1 , 2 have established that, although clinically apparent coronary-artery disease is most common in older persons, it does occur in younger adults in a clinically recognizable form and probably subclinically in the great majority of . . .