Alloxan diabetic rabbits, when fed a cholesterol enriched diet, developed blood cholesterol levels much higher than did normal rabbits fed the same diet. Atheromata appeared consistently in controls (and also in alloxan injected, nondiabetic rabbits) after 41 days on this diet, but only to a slight degree in one diabetic rabbit fed the same diet for 98 days. There was no qualitative difference in the character of the lesions in the 3 groups.
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McGill et al. (1949) studied this question.