from Wayne State University School of Medicine
Long-term efforts to lower the bad kind
of cholesterol and systolic blood
pressure have the potential to largely
eliminate the lifetime risk of
cardiovascular disease. That comment
comes from Dr. Brian Ference of Wayne
State University School of Medicine in
Detroit. His research was presented to
the European Society of Cardiology
involving data from more than one
hundred thousand people who took part
in scientific studies. People in studies to
lower LDL cholesterol had a fifty-four
percent lower risk of cardiovascular
disease while those who lowered their
systolic blood pressure had a forty-five
percent lower risk. But, a group of
people who took part in combined
efforts to lower cholesterol and blood
pressure lowered their risk of
cardiovascular disease by eighty-six
percent.