PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 6 June 1975, pp. 899-900
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Why Such High Serum Levels of Vitamin A?

Philip J. Garry Ph.D.1

1 Clinical Nutrition Laboratory University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

The article by Glueck et at.1 dealing with the effect of cholestyramine and of diet therapy on the level of plasma vitamin A in familial type II hyperlipoproteinemia patients is somewhat disturbing because of the reported high levels of vitamin A found in the plasma of both normal and type II children.

In Table I of the article the vitamin A levels are reported in µmol/liter. Converting these values to the more familiar notation, µg/dl, one obtains the results shown in Table I.