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Article: Cholesterol levels fluctuate with the seasons.
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- Cardiovascular Week
- Article date:
- May 10, 2004
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2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cholesterol levels vary with the seasons, reaching their highest levels in the winter months, according to a new study.
A variety of studies have suggested that cholesterol levels are higher in the fall and winter than they are in the spring and summer. Although the mechanism for this phenomenon is not clear, such variation could result in larger numbers of people being diagnosed as having high cholesterol in the winter, the researchers wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Ira S. Ockene, MD, of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, and colleagues investigated the seasonal variation in ...