Carbohydrate-induced hypertriglyceridemia: modifying factors and implications for cardiovascular risk.

High-carbohydrate/low-fat, isocaloric diets have repeatedly been shown to increase plasma triglyceride concentrations. The present review addresses recent developments relevant to several important unresolved issues. These include the type of dietary carbohydrate that is most likely to induce hypertriglyceridemia, predictors of individual susceptibility, modifiable physiologic factors that may mitigate the plasma triglyceride response, underlying metabolic mechanisms that are responsible for increased plasma triglycerides, and implications of altered serum lipid profiles for atherogenic risk. Although some progress has been made in this field, the central public health issue - the net effect on cardiovascular risk - remains unresolved.     

Isolation of Bacteriophage for Caryophanon latum

Bacteriophage which produce either clear or turbid center plaques have been isolated for native isolates of Caryophanon latum.     

Immunity to Epstein-Barr virus in Hodgkin's disease preceded by infectious mononucleosis

A patient who developed Hodgkin''s disease four years after infectious mononucleosis had elevated serum antibody titres to Epstein-Barr virus and delayed hypersensitivity reactions to membrane antigens prepared from fresh autologous spleen, from spleen cells of another Hodgkin''s patient, and from cell lines known to carry the Epstein-Barr virus genome. Additional studies in more lymphoma patients will be needed to determine the significance of the reactivity against tumour and virus-associated antigens which has been documented in this patient.