Zaraihan S, Azman A B, Tariq A R
Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.
Med J Malaysia. 1994 Dec;49(4):355-63.
The fasting lipid profile of a sample of Malays, Chinese and Indians in Peninsular Malaysia was studied to see whether these might explain differences in the rate of coronary heart disease mortality amongst the three ethnic groups. Fifty healthy subjects were studied from each of the three groups. They were matched for age, body mass index, gender and smoking habits, if any. The total cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol ratio and LDL-cholesterol/HDL-cholesterol ratio were found to be statistically higher in the Indians than in the Malays and the Chinese. The differences between the Indians and the Chinese were statistically more significant than the differences between the Indians and the Malays. Our findings may partially explain the higher predisposition of the Indian community in Malaysia to CHD mortality and are consistent with those of other studies performed on Indian communities living outside the Indian subcontinent.
对马来西亚半岛的马来人、华人及印度人样本进行空腹血脂状况研究，以确定这些因素是否能解释这三个族群冠心病死亡率的差异。三个族群各选取了50名健康受试者。他们在年龄、体重指数、性别及吸烟习惯（如有）方面进行了匹配。结果发现，印度人的总胆固醇/高密度脂蛋白胆固醇比值及低密度脂蛋白胆固醇/高密度脂蛋白胆固醇比值在统计学上高于马来人和华人。印度人与华人之间的差异在统计学上比印度人与马来人之间的差异更为显著。我们的研究结果可能部分解释了马来西亚印度族群冠心病死亡率较高的倾向，并且与对生活在印度次大陆以外地区的印度族群所进行的其他研究结果一致。
