ddd
Ancel Keys’ Cholesterol Con. Part 8. 1970-1974
1970. Report of the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources relating to the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and the Primary Prevention of the atherosclerotic process. At the same time that the NHLBI Task Force on Atherosclerosis was meeting under the chairmanship of Fredrickson, Keys’ principal acolyte Jeremiah Stamler was convening another Commission to […]
The Cholesterol Myth
My blood (LDL or total) cholesterol has gone up on the diet. Does this mean that I am at increased risk of developing a heart attack and so need to take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The evidence is that the average response of the blood (LDL or total) cholesterol concentration to an increased fat intake […]