title: Prevalence of episcleral and subconjunctival lipid deposits in Eskimos.
abstract: Slit lamp examinations of 340 Eskimos in Greenland revealed lipid deposits in 12%. The prevalence was significantly lower than in a Copenhagen series of Caucasians (45% out of 689 subjects) recorded for 10-year age groups. The numbers of lipid deposits seemed to be equal in lipid-positive subjects of the 2 ethnic groups, but the globules were more often localized temporally and more rarely superiorly in Eskimos than in Caucasians. The relatively rare occurrence of lipid deposits in Eskimos may possibly be due to the special composition of lipids on the blood and the rare occurrence of arteriosclerosis in Eskimos.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006116:Greenland; D006801:Humans; D004930:Inuit; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis* / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012590:Sclera / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids