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Several clinical studies using lipid-lowering diets or agents have shown that lowering total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein (LDL) -cholesterol can help prevent coronary heart disease (CHD) death and non-fatal myocardial infarction [1,2]. In addition, two recent studies have shown that elevated levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL) -cholesterol also prevent CHD events [3,4].
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Gotto, A.M. (1990). Cholesterol-CHD connection: evidence for the benefit of lipoprotein modification. In: Descovich, G., Gaddi, A., Magri, G., Lenzi, S. (eds) Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0731-7_1
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