Effect of diet intervention on long-term mortality in healthy middle-aged men with combined hyperlipidaemia

. Objectives. The aim was to study the effect of a 5‐year diet intervention on 24‐year mortality in middle aged men with combined hyperlipidaemia. Setting. We studied 104 initially healthy men (in 1972) aged 40–49 years with baseline values of total serum cholesterol >6.45 mmol L −1 and fasting triglycerides >2.55 mmol L −1 , within the randomized diet and smoking cessation trial of the Oslo study ( n = 1232). Methods. The participants...