Lowering cholesterol early in life could save lives

Tuesday, August 5, 2008 - 03:35 in Health & Medicine

With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is proposing that aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease.

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