[Effect of a reducing diet on metabolic disorders in ischemic heart disease patients having excess weight].

The paper concerns the effect of the diet with a strongly reduced content of carbohydrates, with a restriction of table salt and extractive substances on lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, on catecholamine secretion and exocrine pancreatic function in patients with ischemic heart disease accompanied by overweight and disturbed carbohydrate tolerance. Dietetics has a normalizing action on the body overweight, lipid composition and lipoproteid spectrum, as well as on the enhanced activity of serum trypsin. Moreover, it makes the blood content of immunoreactive insulin return partially to normal.