Nightmares and serum cholesterol level: a preliminary report.
Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie May 1, 2005 Mehmet Yucel Agargun, Mustafa Gulec, Ali Savas Cilli et al.
To examine whether there is a relation between nightmares and serum lipid levels. Fifteen subjects who met DSM-IV criteria for the diagnosis of nightmare disorder and 15 healthy control subjects participated in the study. We used an enzymatic colorimetric method for cholesterol and triglyceride determination. We measured high-density lipoprotien (HDL) cholesterol using the direct...