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The effect of oleate, linoleate, and EPA/DHA supplementation of postmenopausal women on in vivo lipid peroxidation and LDL susceptibility to ex vivo oxidation

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Higdon, Jane V.

Abstract:

While replacement of dietary saturated fat with unsaturated fat has been advocated to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, diets high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) could increase low density lipoprotein (LDL) susceptibility to oxidation, potentially contributing to the pathology of atherosclerosis. To assess in vivo lipid peroxidation and susceptibility, of LDL...

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Dissertation

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smooth muscle cell proliferation (Chatterjee, 1998). Although the majority of support for the