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- <title>
- Feb. 01, 1993: Feeding the Heart
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 01, 1993 Clinton's First Blunder
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- HEALTH & SCIENCE, Page 22
- Feeding the Heart
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- <body>
- <p>New watchwords for the coronary lexicon: LpA-I and factor VII
- </p>
- <p> Nothing is ever simple when it comes to the heart. First the
- big worry was a high cholesterol level. Then, it was discovered,
- cholesterol comes in two varieties, and the real question was
- whether one had more of the good type, HDL, rather than the bad
- kind, LDL. Now it appears that HDL itself contains a mix of both
- good and bad elements. What may really count in the development
- of heart disease, according to scientists at a meeting of the
- American Heart Association, is the amount of the HDL component,
- LpA-I. The more of this protective protein one has circulating
- in the blood, the lower the risk of heart disease seems to be.
- </p>
- <p> Elsewhere, researchers are discovering that a high-fat
- diet plays an even nastier role in heart trouble than
- previously thought. Besides raising cholesterol levels slowly
- over time, fat-rich meals can send the body's blood-clotting
- system into overdrive and make blood dangerously sludgy within
- a matter of hours, thus elevating the risk of a heart attack.
- The fatty foods apparently trigger production of factor VII, a
- blood-clotting substance, which in turn sets off a massive
- chemical reaction. The good news is that switching to a low-fat
- diet promptly eliminates the increased risk of an
- artery-plugging clot.
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- </body>
- </article>
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