Lowering cholesterol early in life could save lives

This graph shows that among individuals younger than 20, about 20% already gave significant coronary atherosclerosis; in the age group 20-29 at's almost 50%; in the age group 30-39 it's up to 65%. (Berenson et al. NEJM,1996; Tuzcu et al., Circulation, 2001).
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Lowering cholesterol early in life could save lives

Aug 05, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is proposing that aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease.
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