Thursday, January 3, 2019

Cholesterol Rises with the Holidays

The New York Times (Bakalar) reports that research published in Atherosclerosis suggests that “the holiday season may confer an unwanted gift: higher cholesterol.”

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HealthDay (Reinberg) reports that “after Christmas, cholesterol levels jumped 20 percent from summer levels among the 25,000 people studied.” 

An individual’s “risk of having high cholesterol becomes six times higher after the Christmas break, the scientists said.”

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