There is no evidence that low or reduced serum cholesterol concentration increases mortality from any cause other than haemorrhagic stroke. This risk affects only those people with a very low concentration and even in these will be outweighed by the benefits from the low risk of ischaemic heart disease.
The results from the cohort studies, international comparisons, and clinical trials are remarkably consistent. The cohort studies, based on half a million men and 18,000 ischaem...
Hawaiian men of Japanese ancestry followed up for 18 or more years after a baseline examination showed a quadratic distribution of death rates at different levels of serum chole...
Worldwide, cerebrovascular accidents (stroke) are the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability.' Stroke, the sudden death of some brain cells due ...
Since serum cholesterol is a major component in the causal pathway of atherosclerosis, a pathological process that usually progresses with age, we have evaluated reported findin...
CURRENT recommendations for lowering the cholesterol level to prevent coronary heart disease have focused largely on primary prevention and have paid less attention to the issue...
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