American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 131, No. 1: 20-31
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SERUM PLANT STEROLS AND CHOLESTEROL PRECURSORS REFLECT CHOLESTEROL ABSORPTION AND SYNTHESIS IN VOLUNTEERS OF A RANDOMLY SELECTED MALE POPULATION
1Second Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki SF-00290 Helsinki, Finland
Second Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, SF-00290 Helsinki, Finland. (Send reprint requests to Prof. Tatu A. Miettinen at this address.)
To investigate the regulation of serum levels of cholesterol precursor sterols and plant sterols, these noncholesterol sterols, fatty acids, and various parame ters of cholesterol metabolism were analyzed in 63 volunteers from a randomly selected Finnish male population sample of 100 subjects, aged 50 years, who had normal dietary habits. Serum levels of cholesterol precursors, desmosterol and lathosterol (in terms of µg/mg cholesterol), were negatively related to both the fractional and absolute absorption of dietary cholesterol and serum high density lipoprotein (HOL) cholesterol, and positively related to overall cholesterol synthesis and serum very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol. Serum levels of the plant sterols, campesterol and sitosterol, exhibited positive correlations with the polyunsaturated/saturated fatty acid ratio of dietary fat, the linoleic acid contents of plasma and dietary lipids, the amount of dietaryplant sterois (as indicated by fecai output), fractional and absolute absorption of dietary cholesterol, and HDL cholesterol, but were inversely related to the overall cholesterol synthesis and VLDL cholesterol. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that the serum level of campesterol was associated with fractional cholesterol absorption, dietary plant sterols, and biliary cholesterol secretion, and that of sitosterol with dietary plant sterols, cholesterol synthesis, tractional cholesterol absorption, and biliary cholesterol secretion. Thus, the serum non-cholesterol sterols are significant indicators of cholesterol absorption and synthesis even under basal conditions and, since gas liquid chromatographic determination of these sterols is quite simple, their measurement may be valuable for monitoring cholesterol metabolism in large-scale epidemiologicstudies.
cholesterol; lathosterol; phytosterols; sitosterols
2Present address: Department of Internal Medicine, University of OuluOulu, Finland
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