It’s being said as an improvement that may be due to more aggressive treatment with cholesterol and blood-pressure drugs and healthier diets.
According to the report released by the association, about half the decline was due to
more aggressive use of cholesterol and blood-pressure drugs.
The rest of the decline was due to improvements in diet, including less saturated and trans fats and less salt, as well as less smoking.
said Don Lloyd-Jones, lead author of the report and associate professor of medicine and preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine said about the study.
He said over the seven years, total cholesterol in men 40 and older and women 60 and older dropped from an average of 204 milligrams per deciliter to 199, a decline that likely was due to more aggressive cholesterol guidelines that were set in 20
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