Momtezuma Tuatara
08-02-09, 06:45 AM
February 8
High cholesterol levels and heart disease. The link seems to have been hammered in to us via public health messages and marketers selling low-fat, low cholesterol foods.
But just how relevant are cholesterol levels in predicting your risk of having a heart attack? Or are other factors more important?
Recent research has prompted calls for the use of statins, that is cholesterol lowering drugs to be extended.
But sceptics, who describe the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease as nonsense, say that would be disastrous.
Sue Ingram investigates the role of cholesterol and heart disease.
This is the 9 mb mp3 download URL http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/inst/inst-20090208-0812-Insight,_Sunday_8_February_Cholesterol-048.mp3
it's called win/win journalism, and no doubt will leave some, none the wiser, but does alert people to the fact that there is more to this debate than just statins.
High cholesterol levels and heart disease. The link seems to have been hammered in to us via public health messages and marketers selling low-fat, low cholesterol foods.
But just how relevant are cholesterol levels in predicting your risk of having a heart attack? Or are other factors more important?
Recent research has prompted calls for the use of statins, that is cholesterol lowering drugs to be extended.
But sceptics, who describe the link between cholesterol levels and heart disease as nonsense, say that would be disastrous.
Sue Ingram investigates the role of cholesterol and heart disease.
This is the 9 mb mp3 download URL http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/inst/inst-20090208-0812-Insight,_Sunday_8_February_Cholesterol-048.mp3
it's called win/win journalism, and no doubt will leave some, none the wiser, but does alert people to the fact that there is more to this debate than just statins.