REVIOUS to the present series' of articles on arteriosclerosis, two excellent reviews in this
Journa12* 3 covered briefly the principal points of cholesterol metabolism as related to
atherosclerosis. The purpose of the present article is to discuss in somewhat greater detail
certain aspects of lipid metabolism bearing on atheromatosis, emphasizing recent work on
the origin of the plasma lipids, factors affecting endogenous lipid synthesis, relationships
between plasma and tissue lipids and similar studies made possible by the use of …