Faiqa Fayyaz, Muhammad Nawaz, Fatima Arif, Saman Batool, Asma Lodhi.
Dietary effects on hemo-lipid profile; in university students of middle income group.
Professional Med J Jan ;13(4):621-6.

A study had been being undertaken to estimate the dietary effects on blood lipid profile of young male and female university students. Lipid profile is a group of tests that are often ordered together to determine risk of coronary heart diseases by estimating blood cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL) and triglycerides. For the estimation, blood samples of each 30 female and male volunteers had been centrifuged and plasma had been separated for analysis. Levels of lipid profile parameters had been measured by recommended kit method and color developed had been measured by spectrophotomer. The results had been presented as mean±SD Female volunteers had an average±SD value for cholesterol 183.1±14.8, for triglycerides 183.2±22.5, for HDL 51±6.2 and for LDL 95.5±15.7, whereas male volunteers had an average ±SD value for cholesterol 190±14.9, for triglycerides 222.5±18.2, for HDL 41.4±5.8 and for LDL 104.2±17.1. It had been concluded that values of triglycerides and cholesterol were higher than the normal values for both female and male volunteers because the content of saturated fatty acids was higher in their diets, use of vegetables, fruits and fruit juices was very low, in some cases the number of meals taken per day was more than 5 which is not desirable in adult people especially when their lifestyle is sedentary and in some cases smoking altered the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

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