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Article: Cholesterol limbo: how low can you go?
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- February 1, 1993
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Last summer, the journal Circulation published an analysis of 19 international studies on low cholesterol, involving some 300,000 men and women. In 1971, a Japanese study showed a relationship between cholesterol levels less than 160 and high rates of cerebral hemorrhage.
Subsequent studies have shown similar results. The Circulation report showed that very low cholesterol levels were associated with four times the risk of dying from a number of conditions other than heart disease. These included: suicide, alcoholism, chronic obstructive lung disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and some cancers.
About the same time, an article in the Archives of Internal ...