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Journal of the American College of Nutrition, Vol 8, Issue 5 400-406, Copyright © 1989 by American College of Nutrition

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Serum zinc and copper: associations with cholesterol and triglyceride levels in children and adolescents. Cardiovascular risk in young Finns

R. Laitinen, E. Vuori and J. Viikari
Department of Public Health Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Associations among serum lipids (total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides) and levels of serum zinc (S-Zn), serum copper (S-Cu), and their ratio were analyzed in 3373 3-, 6-, 9-, 12-, 15-, and 18-year-old Finnish girls and boys. S-Zn was positively related to total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, and LDL-cholesterol; S-Cu related negatively to HDL-cholesterol. Obesity did not affect these relationships. The few exceptionally high lipid levels found were not associated with very low or high S-Zn or S-Cu. S-Zn and S-Cu were related to serum lipids; causality between the variables, however, remains to be studied.




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