A recent $14,000 grant to the Louisiana State university school of medicine assures two more years of research on a project that was started over 10 years ago. The Life Insurance Medical Research Fund has granted the sum for study of relationship of diet and renal insufficiency to arterial disease. Past study has been financed by six grants from the John and Mary R, Markle Foundation,
Dr. Russell L, Holman, head of the department of pathology, is seeking the answer to how factors of high fat diet and kidney injury combine to affect the heart and blood vessels.