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From: ss@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: cholesterol in food and blood
Message-ID: <2407@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 08:53:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 08:53:40 1984
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Read last week's? issue of Newsweek. The study used a number of middle
aged men in a double blind test. Half the group received medication to
reduce blood cholesterol, the other half received placebos. Neither the
doctors, not the patients knew who was receiving what. Other factors like
smoking etc. were statistically similar in the two groups.
As far as I am aware, the study only connected the cholesterol levels in
the blood with risk of heart attacks, it said nothing about the relation
between ingested cholesterol and the levels in the blood.

Sharad Singhal
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