Why the study?
Do changes in abdominal adiposity correlate with changes in serum lipoprotein cholesterol levels in Western Samoan men over 10 years?
Population
43 Western Samoan men who participated in a 1982 study
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 years
Authors
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May inform adiposity-lipid risk links in Pacific populations; leaves open causality and generalizability pending larger trials.
Do changes in abdominal adiposity correlate with changes in serum lipoprotein cholesterol levels in Western Samoan men over 10 years?
Longitudinal increases in abdominal adiposity are significantly correlated with increases in total and non-HDL cholesterol levels, suggesting a mechanism for the association between abdominal adiposity and coronary heart disease.
Galanis et al. (1995) studied this question.
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