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Changes in Serum Phospholipids in Male and Female Baboons on a Sucrose Diet

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SUCROSE diets produce higher levels of triglyceride in the fasting serum of men than of premenopausal women1,2. This communication indicates that in baboons there is a sex difference in the response of the serum total phospholipids to a sucrose diet.

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COLTART, T. Changes in Serum Phospholipids in Male and Female Baboons on a Sucrose Diet. Nature 222, 575–576 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222575a0

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