Hubbard VS, Dunn GD, di Sant'Agnese PA. Abnormal fatty-acid composition of plasma-lipids in cystic fibrosis. A primary or a secondary defect?
Lancet 1977;
2:1302-4. [PMID:
74723 DOI:
10.1016/s0140-6736(77)90359-2]
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Abstract
The percentage fatty-acid composition of the various plasma-lipid fractions from cystic-fibrosis patients with and without pancreatic insufficiency, obligate heterozygotes, and normal subjects was determined. Only the cystic-fibrosis patients with pancreatic insufficiency had significantly abnormal fatty-acid composition. This general observation did not correlate with vitamin-E deficiency, age, sex, or severity of the disease. Thus the altered fatty-acid composition of the different plasma-lipid fractions appears to be a secondary consequence of the pancreatic insufficiency commonly associated with cystic fibrosis and not a direct metabolic defect related to the cystic-fibrosis gene itself.
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