Back to Search Start Over

Further Experiences with Blood Coagulation after Fat Meals and Carbohydrate Meals

Authors :
Irving S. Wright
Jaime Borrero
Erwin Sheppard
Source :
Circulation. 17:936-940
Publication Year :
1958
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1958.

Abstract

There have been conflicting reports as to whether the ingestion of fat increases the tendency for the blood to clot, and hence, by implication, the risk of thromboembolic complications in man. In this study the effect of a single meal containing a large amount of fat was compared with that of a practically purely carbohydrate isocaloric meal. Under carefully controlled conditions the clotting time varied widely under fasting conditions, and after both fat and carbohydrate meals the clotting time became longer, shorter, or remain unchanged. The results were unpredictable and although a slight trend toward shortened clotting times was evidenced after the fat meals, the results did not reach accepted statistical standards of probability.

Details

ISSN :
15244539 and 00097322
Volume :
17
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Circulation
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....a4380439eb253046fcdff63751e83f33
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.17.5.936