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While people in high-risk categories--those who smoke or who have elevated blood pressure or high cholesterol level--can add as much as a year to their lives by lowering the cholesterol level in their diets, people in low-risk categories will gain only days or weeks from a diet change, according to the study...
...their research, doctors focused on calculating the increase in life expectancy for individuals in different categories, including males and females of different ages, smokers and non-smokers, and people with high and low blood pressure...
...Lowering blood pressure and quitting smoking, however, can have greater impact on a person's life expectancy than decreasing cholesterol levels,said Taylor...
Taylor said that the doctors needed a figurefor the average difference in blood cholesterollevel when a high-risk person goes on acarefully-monitored diet...
Using the results of the Multiple Risk FactorIntervention Trial, previous research on heartdisease conducted by the National Heart, Blood andLung Institute, the Harvard doctors found that theaverage decrease over a seven-year period...