Postmortem Studies on Coronary Atherosclerosis, Serum Beta Lipoproteins and Somatotypes

Spain, David M.; Bradess, Victoria A.; Greenblatt, I. J.

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“…Evidence suggests that males high in endomorphy and mesomorphy are at greater risk of dying from coronary heart disease (Spain et al, 1953(Spain et al, , 1955(Spain et al, , 1963Gertler and White, 1954;Damon et al, 1969;Smit et al, 1979).…”

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“…There is a relationship between physique and coronary heart disease in adults (Gertler et al, 1951;Spain et al, 1953Spain et al, , 1955Spain et al, , 1963Gertler and White, 1954;Damon, 1965;Damon et al, 1969;Smit et al, 1979). Several studies have also examined associations between somatotype and indicators of metabolic fitness in adults, specifically risk factors for coronary heart disease.…”

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Somatotype and indicators of metabolic fitness in youth

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Somatotype and indicators of metabolic fitness in youth

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“…The previous studies by Gertler et al (1950Gertler et al ( , 1951Gertler et al ( , 1967 and Spain et al (1953Spain et al ( , 1955 suggested that mesomorphy was the most significant somatotype component with regard to predisposition to CAD. However, this conclusion should be viewed with caution, as these studies examined the somatotype not as a gestalt, but focused only on the dominant component.…”

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“…cades ago but has not been studied extensively (Gertler et al, 1950(Gertler et al, , 1951Gertler, 1967;Spain et al, 1953Spain et al, , 1955Spain et al, , 1963Paul et al, 1963;Damon 1965;Damon et al, 1969). The majority of these studies indicated that most of the cardiac cases examined have been dominant in mesomorphy with endomorphy the secondary characteristic.…”

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Somatotype and angiographically determined atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in men

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The relationship between somatotype and somatotype components with coronary artery disease (CAD) and regional adiposity was considered in 58 males (age 60.2 ± 9.4 years) undergoing investigative coronary angiography for suspected atherosclerotic CAD. Severity of CAD was determined in terms of both the degree of stenosis and the anatomical position of the lesions on the coronary arteries (myocardial score). Six patients had negative angiographic findings but three of these had impaired left ventricular function as determined by left ventriculography. The mean (±SD) somatotype of the group was 5.7 / 5.6 / 1.2 (1.7 / 1.4 / 1.0), illustrating a clear dominance of the first two somatotype components. Canonical correlation analysis showed that somatotype was not significantly related to the angiography results (P > 0.05). However, correlations between the somatotype components and the angiography results with their respective first canonical variates showed that the somatotype variate was one of high mesomorphy and low ectomorphy and the angiography variate was essentially one of a high myocardial score. After adjustment for the confounding interrelationship among the somatotype components, endomorphy was significantly correlated with abdominal circumference (r = 0.65, P < 0.001), the abdomen‐to‐hip ratio (r = 0.53, P < 0.001) and the abdominal sagittal diameter (r = 0.60, P < 0.001). Mesomorphy was not related to these indicators of android or abdominal adiposity following partial adjustment. Ectomorphy was inversely related to the indices of general and regional adiposity. This study suggests that adiposity and muscularity are important features in terms of increased CAD risk, whereas linearity is beneficial. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 12:128–138, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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