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...send a clear signal, a panel of experts assembled by the NHLBI last week called for all Americans over age 20 to have their cholesterol levels checked. The group also set forth the first well-defined national cholesterol-level standards for adults and spelled out precisely what physicians should do once ^ a patient's cholesterol level is determined. "Medical practice is going to undergo a major change on the basis of this report," said Panel Chairman DeWitt S. Goodman of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City...
Concluded the director of the project, Dr. Basil Rifkind of the NHLBI: "It is now indisputable that lowering cholesterol with diet and drugs can actually cut the risk of developing heart disease and having a heart attack...
...earlier investigation by an outside ad hoc Med School committee concluded that Darsee had falsified data on at least three occasions, two investigations commenced one by Braunwald and the director of the laboratory, Dr. Robert A Kloner, and one by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Panel (NHLBI...
Today's statement by the NIH calls for an on-site review, a year from now, of the laboratory in which Darsee worked. The inquiry will be to "confirm the impression of the NHLBI panel that current laboratory procedures and supervision of research are adequate," a synopsis of the statement reads...