Abstract
210 healthy individuals and 250 patients suffering from chronic arteriosclerotic vascular diseases with occlusions of the lower extremities were examined for occurrence of hyperlipemia. A log-normal distribution was found for the serum total lipids, triglyceride, cholesterol and β-lipoproteins. The mean lipid levels of patients were significantly higher than normal. Correlations between serum lipid fractions were recorded. 97 patients (39%) had hyper-lipidemia. Type IIa was present in 60, type lib in 25 and type IV in 12 of these hyper-lipidemic patients. It was significant that patients having a peripheral occlusion were more frequently affected by hyperlipidemia than patients with occlusions of the arteria femoralis or arteria iliaca. In 31% of all patients we found a hypertension, in 23% an adipositas and in 12% a manifest diabetes.