The intercorrelation of serum cholesterol, cigarette smoking and body weight. The Oslo Study.
A screening for coronary risk factors in 18 000 Oslo 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 parallelled 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.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway; D012907:Smoking / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013997:Time Factors
D002784:Cholesterol