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Your article on the link between lowered cholesterol levels and the decline in the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease suggests that we should be consuming unpalatable foods. Prudent diets, which we recommend, are not punitive diets. People can limit rather than eliminate their intake of high-cholesterol foods like eggs and perhaps prolong their lives...
Cohn said the racing dogs are very important for heart research because of their strong cardiovascular system which are generally similar to a humans...
...Finns, with the fattiest diet, had the highest cholesterol levels and the highest rate of heart disease; the Americans, with a diet only slightly less rich, were a close second. But the Japanese, who eat a diet low in fat, had the lowest cholesterol levels and the least cardiovascular disease. Their rate of fatal heart attacks was one-fourth the American incidence. A later study showed that when Japanese emigrated to the U.S. and adopted a Western diet, their incidence of heart disease soared to ten times that of their countrymen in Japan...
...were found in autopsies to have blood vessels narrowed by atherosclerosis. Their average age: 22. The arteries of the young soldiers in the opposing forces-Koreans raised on a diet of rice and vegetables-showed no such damage. In regions where famine is rife and meat is scarce, cardiovascular disease is virtually unknown...
...medically important fact about the patient was his age at the time of death: 69, seven years beyond the average life expectancy for Soviet males. Andropov had suffered a heart attack about 20 years ago and, like nearly 10% of people over 65, he had diabetes. The combination of cardiovascular disease and diabetes made him a high-risk candidate for kidney trouble, and he was suffering from kidney problems when he assumed power in November 1982. By last February, his kidney function had become so poor that he started treatment on a dialysis machine...