What do you know about cholesterol?
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When his patients want to talk about cholesterol, cardiologist Dariush Mozaffarian knows he has his work cut out for him. Confusion about the much-maligned substance is common: Surveys of adults around the world show that although most people are concerned about their cholesterol, fewer than half know recommended cholesterol levels or understand what those numbers mean for their health.
“There’s a lot of confusion and controversy around cholesterol,” says Mozaffarian, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School. “There is even confusion among the scientists who study it.”
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