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Article: CHOLESTEROL LEVELS DROPPED IN EARLY '80S, STUDY SAYS.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 4, 1991
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Byline: Associated Press
The cholesterol levels of people who lived in Minneapolis- St. Paul dropped significantly during the early 1980s, and a similar fall probably occurred nationwide, according to a study.
The researchers found that during the first half of the decade, men's blood cholesterol levels fell an average of 5 points to 200, while women's levels dropped 6 points to 195.
"The decline in cholesterol occurred not only at the upper levels of cholesterol but across the entire distribution," said Dr. Gregory L. Burke, who directed the study.
Burke, a researcher at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., presented ...