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The benefits of high cholesterol
We have all heard the claims that a high blood cholesterol level is harmful. We hear and see this message in news bulletins, magazine articles, advertisements for cholesterol-lowering foods, even breakfast cereals, and drugs several times every day. But the evidence refutes these claims.
There is a growing amount of evidence for a hypothesis that the first step in the formation of atherosclerosis is an inflammatory response to some injury of the arterial wall caused by damage to that wall, perhaps by an infectious bacterium or virus. |
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