{"id":113176,"date":"2009-11-23T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021519673330908753.post-7345084510881386718"},"modified":"2009-12-01T09:43:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:43:55","slug":"incidence-of-high-cholesterol-drops-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/113176","title":{"rendered":"Incidence of High Cholesterol Drops in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
The good news is that a new report shows the percentage of American adults with high LDL cholesterol, the \u201cbad\u201d kind that clogs arteries, decreased by about one-third between 1999 and 2006.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that too many of those who have dangerously high levels of LDL cholesterol don\u2019t know it, said study author Dr. Elena V. Kuklina, an epidemiologist and senior service fellow at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her research is published in the Nov. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
\u201cIn the group with high LDL cholesterol, 60 percent of these people do not know they have this condition,\u201d Kuklina said. \u201cThey are in two major groups \u2014 those who have never been screened, and those who have been screened but not diagnosed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not as easy to test for LDL, rather than total blood cholesterol<\/span><\/a> levels, including \u201cgood\u201d HDL, Kuklina said. An LDL test requires fasting for the previous eight hours, \u201cand if you are not prepared for this test, it is not going to be correct,\u201d she said. But testing someone and then not informing that person of a dangerously high LDL cholesterol level is not easy to explain, she said.<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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The good news is that a new report shows the percentage of American adults with high LDL cholesterol, the \u201cbad\u201d kind that clogs arteries, decreased by about one-third between 1999 and 2006. The bad news is that too many of those who have dangerously high levels of LDL cholesterol don\u2019t know it, said study author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}