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A discovery showing how the immune system reduces cholesterol levels could lead to improved heart-protective treatments.
High levels of cholesterol can lead to narrowed arteries and heart disease. But the fatty substance also contributes to vital body functions such as making cell membranes and hormones.
Widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins block the good effects as well as the bad.
Now scientists have learned that the body has its own way of keeping cholesterol in check, via the immune system.
Cholesterol levels are suppressed as part of the process that fights off viral infections.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk...BhINlbkjFopkMpYsg?docId=N0196521345947429723A
High levels of cholesterol can lead to narrowed arteries and heart disease. But the fatty substance also contributes to vital body functions such as making cell membranes and hormones.
Widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins block the good effects as well as the bad.
Now scientists have learned that the body has its own way of keeping cholesterol in check, via the immune system.
Cholesterol levels are suppressed as part of the process that fights off viral infections.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/uk...BhINlbkjFopkMpYsg?docId=N0196521345947429723A