title: [Blood lipids and alcohol consumption in the aged].
abstract: In order to clarify the importance of chronic alcohol uptake in modifying the plasmal lipid levels in the aged people, two groups of males were examined. The people in the two groups had same mean age, and smoking habits (under 10 cigarettes a day) and received the same free ward diet, but had a different alcohol uptake; one group drank more than 150 g of ethanol a day and the other group less than 50 g. The almost only vehicle of ethanol was the red wine. No differences were found among the two groups neither for the cholesterol nor for total lipids, nor for triglycerides. This confirmed that for the aged people it cannot be spoken of an "alcohol induced iperlipemia".
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids
vernacular_title: Lipidi ematici ed assunzione di alcool nell'anziano.