Cholesterol-Phospholipid Ratio in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease

THE role of lipids as predictors of coronary heart disease has become of considerable interest during the past two decades. Many individual lipids, such as the serum cholesterol, phospholipid and various beta-lipoprotein fractions, have been extensively evaluated as indicators of coronary heart disease. Attempts have also been made to combine certain of these lipid values in the hope of producing an index that would be a more sensitive predictor of the potential for developing coronary heart disease than the individual lipids. Included among these proposed lipid indexes are the ratio of cholesterol to phospholipid and that of the uric acid . . .