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Article: Smoke hurts kids' cholesterol status.(exposure to secondhand smoke lowers HDL cholesterol in children at risk of heart disease)(Brief Article)
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- Science News
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- October 4, 1997
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Children at high risk of heart disease who live in houses with smokers have significantly lower concentrations of HDL cholesterol, the good cholesterol, than their counterparts living in smokefree houses, a study in the Sept. 2 Circulation finds.
Researchers recruited 103 children whose HDL concentrations placed them in the bottom fifth percentile for their age group; 28 of the children lived with at least one smoker. They had similar fat intake, degree of obesity, and amounts of exercise as the 75 children who lived in smokefree homes. Most of the children had a family history of heart disease.
Both groups had very high concentrations of LDL ...