CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF SERUM-LIPID CO MPOSITION IN NORTHERN SELCUPS

A representative sample of native selcup population (161 males and 237 females) aged 20-69 from the Tyumen region of the Russian Federation was examined for blood lipids using standard techniques. Measurement o f mean cholesterol in males and females showed it to be 181.2+/-9.4 mg /dl and 188.2+/-8.5 mg/dl, respectively, that of low-density lipoprote ins, high-density lipoproteins made up 112.0+/-9.7 mg/dl and 50.3+/-3. 9 mg/dl for males and 118.4+/-9.0 mg/dl, 51.7+/-3.4 mg/dl, for females , respectively. Mean triglycerides concentration amounted to 86.1+/-7. 0 in males against 87.4+/-6.7 mg/dl in females. Overall atherogenic in dex averaged 2.9+/-0.3. The findings evidence that northern selcups (b oth males and females) have much lower content of blood cholesterol an d low-density lipoprotein cholesterol than control populations from No vosibirsk and Moscow.