[Trace elements and lipid parameters in arteriosclerotic circulatory disorders by polyene fatty acids]

In 106 patients with peripheral arteriosclerotic obturating disease low values of serum magnesium as well as an increase of the relation of vasoaggressive to vasoprotective lipoproteins could be established. Under a polyene fatty acid diet (40 ml sunflower oil or linseed oil a day) the serum copper values significantly decreased, whereas of the indices of arteriosclerosis only in the linseed oil group of apolipoprotein-B/A-quotient, in the sunflower oil group the triglyceride level decreased statistically significantly. Therefore the favourable influences of physical conditioning as well as of pharmacotherapy on the disturbed lipoprotein metabolism of patients with vascular diseases should additionally be used.