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WE have reported1 that six out of a group of nineteen healthy young men responded to a diet rich in sucrose by an increase in body weight, in plasma insulin level and in platelet adhesiveness. From this experiment we have suggested that only some people are susceptible to “sucrose-induced hyperinsulinism” and that this may be associated with their susceptibility to occlusive atherosclerotic disease. A further study2 of two groups of middle-aged men, one suffering from peripheral vascular disease and the other apparently free from arterial disease, supported this suggestion.
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SZANTO, S., YUDKIN, J. Dietary Sucrose and Platelet Behaviour. Nature 225, 467–468 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225467a0
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