APRIL 3, 2018

Hyperlipidemia: Fact and Fiction

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Our national belief that cholesterol is bad is under attack. The doctrine of equating hyperlipidemia with atherosclerosis is being questioned by growing numbers of nonbelievers. Where is the truth; where is science? Let me attempt to separate hyperlipidemia facts from near facts and fiction.

After World War II, the Western world became aware that an atherosclerosis epidemic was sweeping the globe, focused in the relatively affluent nations (e.g., the United States) and