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Study of Heart Attack Victims Showed Most Had Normal LDLs

In a study of nearly 137,000 people who had heart attacks, most did not have high LDL (bad) cholesterol. Here are several other measures that are better indicators of heart disease.

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • A review of information on 136,905 people who had a heart attack showed that 72.1% had LDL cholesterol levels within the normal range

  • The theory that cholesterol increases heart attack risk may be the work of pharmaceutical companies chasing a bigger return on statin drugs

  • Vegetable oils have been promoted in place of saturated animal fat…

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