... assessment of the place of synthetic detergents such as Tween in human therapy has not been reported. 2. The effects of Tween were studied in 13 patients with bile-salt-deficient steatorrhoea, eight of whom received Tween 80 and five Tween 20. 3. Tween therapy reduced steatorrhoea in 10/13 patients; a mean...

...Gilbert R. Thompson; J. Paul Miller 1. Plasma lipids and lipoproteins have been studied in control subjects and patients with various types of steatorrhoea. 2. Low plasma cholesterol levels were found in malabsorbers and were associated with decreased amounts of low-density lipoprotein (LDL...