Abstract
Summary
Miniature pigs maintained for one year on diets containing 15% of either beef tallow or safflower oil did not exhibit lipemia in the fasting state, yet the clotting time was much shorter in the tallow group than in the safflower group. The clotting time was shortened 3 hours after ingestion of either fat, but the effect produced by the saturated fat was much more pronounced than that produced by the unsaturated fat. The recalcified plasma clotting time was also a satisfactory measure of the increase in coagulability brought about by dietary fats, and served to detect differences in coagulability brought about by saturated and unsaturated fats.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.