[Dietary lipids and serum lipids in adolescents, based on the Geneva study of the precursors of atherosclerosis].

The relationship between serum lipids and nutrition, physical activity and body mass index were studies with a multifactorial analysis of variance in a group of 160 adolescents of both sexes (Table I). These relationships are complex and difficult to demonstrate; they give rise, however, to certain considerations of presumptive characteristics possibly linked with adolescence.