Fibrinolysis and Alimentary Lipaemia in Whites and Bantus; Their Relationship and Response to Intravenous Heparin

H Lackner; R Sougin-Mibashan

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1654811

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1964; 11(01): 108-118
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1654811

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Fibrinolysis and Alimentary Lipaemia in Whites and Bantus; Their Relationship and Response to Intravenous Heparin

H Lackner^*

¹Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape

,

R Sougin-Mibashan

¹Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape

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Abstract

Summary and Conclusion

1. Diurnal variation in fibrinolysis is marked in the Whites and almost absent in the Bantu. >

2. The difference in fibrinolytic activity beween White and Bantu has been confirmed, but was found to decrease over the course of the morning due to diurnal variation in the White subjects.

3. The ingestion of butter fat does not inhibit fibrinolysis to any appreciable extent in either White or Bantu.

4. The accelerating effect of heparin on fibrinolysis was found to be present in lipaemic plasma, but appears to be distinct from the fat-clearing effect.

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