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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1982; 5(2):45-50

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1982.5.2.45

Original Article

Study on Dietary Intake of Cholesterol in the Korean

D.Y. Lee, N.E. Sung
Corresponding author: N.E.Sung. Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Copyright ⓒ 1982. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

The accumulation of cholesterol in body has recently been known as one of the risk factor for hypertension, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, so we have been concerned with cholesterol content of foods and dietary intake of cholesterol. Accordingly, cholesterol amound taken by the Korean has investigated and the results are summarized as follows; 1. The annual research data shows that daily cholesterol intake of Korean has increased by the improvement of economic condition. 2. In the daily cholesterol intake amount by a person, the urban district was higher than the rural district. 3. It will be very possible that the amount of cholesterol taken per day is more than 300mg due to improvement of economic condition within a few years.