[Residual dyslipoproteinemias after ethanol-weaning in alcoholic hyperlipidemic patients (author's transl)].

Twenty-two hyperlipidemic and long-term alcoholic patients were chosen as subjects with a chronic alcohol-dependent hyperlipoproteinemia, since their lipidemia was getting normal after they stopped alochol ingestion. After ethanol-weaning of these subjects, we found quantitative abnormalities of lipidemia (hypocholesterolemia in 5 cases among 22) and qualitative abnormal electrophoretic patterns in all cases: There is always a VLDL stain, a reduction of the LDL and VLDL migration. These facts suggest that exists in these patients a constant abnormality either in the enzymatic, or in the lipoprotein structures, which is induced or revealed by alcohol ingestion.20