Word: risk
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...noted in 1951, many people are still not being advised by their doctors to raise their good-cholesterol levels. The reason, says Dr. Robert Levy, president of New Jersey's Sandoz Research Institute, is that there is no absolute proof that raising HDL alone can lower a person's risk of heart disease. No convincing body of evidence from animal studies has yet demonstrated the value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed for LDL until this decade, when it was unequivocally shown that lowering...
...fully understood. The signs so far are encouraging, but the public does not have to wait for all the answers about HDL in order to do something about preventing heart disease. The LDL story, after all, is already clear: the lower the LDL, the lower the risk of heart disease. For most people in the Western world, basic changes in eating habits and life-style can drastically reduce or eliminate the threat of heart attack. Declares Dr. Bernadine Healy, president of the American Heart Association: "More than half the adult population has within its own power the ability to decrease...
...curiosity to such subjects as Asian-American students, the environment and the hospice movement. In preparation for this week's stories, Brand so immersed himself in the subject that he even had his own cholesterol count checked. He was relieved to find it was 170, well within the low-risk range. But that should have come as no surprise. A self-described "food fanatic," Brand avoids cholesterol-rich dishes and relaxes by preparing Chinese meals that are low in saturated fats. He credits his diet sense to the influence of his wife Sandra, a former registered nurse who works...
...rising interest rates is the federal budget deficit, which is expected to total $137 billion in fiscal 1990. Paul Volcker, the former Fed chairman and now a Wall Street financier, warned a congressional commission last week that unless the Government reduces its huge borrowing needs, "there is the risk of a real financial disturbance. It would bring about the kind of recession that would be the most difficult to handle." One way in which the deficit has triggered higher rates is by undermining foreign confidence in the dollar, which plunged more than 3% against the Japanese yen in the three...
...most accounts, the Fed is attempting to nip inflation before it buds, a policy some economists believe could be dangerous. Says Sidney Jones, a professor at Georgetown University's business school: "The Federal Reserve is overreacting to the risk of what it perceives as an overheated economy. I don't think it's there." Adds Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential- Bache Securities: "I hope Greenspan doesn't do too good a job of keeping the lid on, because it could cause a recession. I don't think he will, but he could take some...