Word: bostom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Study, which since 1948 has poked, prodded and bled two generations of men and women to uncover the roots of heart disease. It could help solve a medical problem that has long frustrated cardiologists: Why do some people with normal cholesterol levels have heart attacks? According to Dr. Andrew Bostom of Tufts University, who led the research team, all the men entered the study with no signs of heart disease. And even today their total cholesterol counts are only slightly elevated, averaging 200 mg/dL. (Women also participated in the research, but so few suffered heart attacks that the results were...
...same logic applies even more powerfully to smoking. Smokers in the study were four times as likely to develop early heart disease as nonsmokers, no matter what their Lp(a) level. "Smoking," says Bostom, "blows everything out of the water in terms of being a risk factor for coronary disease." Men who light up almost don't need to worry about cholesterol of any sort. They have a much bigger problem to deal with...
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