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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Against the drumbeat of bad news on obesity and diabetes among children, researchers have uncovered a cause for cautious optimism: a steady and significant improvement in the cholesterol profiles of American kids over the last 20 years.
The proportion of young people ages 6 to 19 with high total cholesterol dropped 28% between the two time periods sampled in the report, from 11.3% in 1988-94 down to 8.1% in 2007-10, the new study found.
At the same time, the average American teen's levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, "bad" LDL cholesterol and triglycerides ? dangerous fats that circulate in the bloodstream and slowly clog arteries ? improved too.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-cholesterol-kids-20120808,0,5777548.story
The proportion of young people ages 6 to 19 with high total cholesterol dropped 28% between the two time periods sampled in the report, from 11.3% in 1988-94 down to 8.1% in 2007-10, the new study found.
At the same time, the average American teen's levels of "good" HDL cholesterol, "bad" LDL cholesterol and triglycerides ? dangerous fats that circulate in the bloodstream and slowly clog arteries ? improved too.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-cholesterol-kids-20120808,0,5777548.story