Low cholesterol prevents cancer

Medicine has long been known that the lower the level of cholesterol in the human blood, the less chance of getting any disease of the cardiovascular system. But now it turned out that a healthy heart benefits of low cholesterol are not exhausted.

Medical records 29,000 Finnish men were studied for 18 years. The researchers wanted to see how the assertions that low cholesterol   increases the risk of formation oncological diseases . And they came to the opposite conclusion - not only does not increase, but decreases.

Cholesterol   below the recommended 200 milligrams per deciliter was associated with an increased risk of tumors by 18%. However, it was observed only in the early years of the study. "We were able to establish that Low Cholesterol   sometimes just one of the early diagnosis   cancer "- Said Dr. Demetrius Albanes of the National Cancer Institute of the United States. But the high level of HDL, the so-called" good cholesterol "(HDL - high-density lipoprotein), which protects the coronary arteries, lowers of cancer   14% throughout the study period.

In addition, according to the medical records of 5500 patients studied American Fund to Fight Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, in patients with cholesterol   below the recommended risk of cancer prostate decreased by 59%. While scientists still do not know whether statins, used to lower "bad" cholesterol LDL, also reduces the risk   of cancer .

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