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Most heart patients have unhealthy cholesterol levels
Most people who suffer from heart disease don't reach doctor-recommended levels of bad cholesterol and other harmful blood fats, a new report suggests. Researchers looked at a large sampling of U.S. adults and found that 85 percent to 89 percent of people who did not have heart disease had recommended levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides and healthy levels of good cholesterol. But less than 40 percent of patients with heart disease were at goal for bad cholesterol, 35 percent had low levels of good cholesterol, and 44 percent had levels of harmful triglycerides above the recommended level.
(CholesterolNetwork.com) UPDATED 07/29/2008Click here to read the full story
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