BIOLOGY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: High-Density Lipoprotein, Cardiovascular Disease, Hypercholesterolemia
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5. acids, and unsaturated fatty acids in relation to cardiovascular diseases. Discuss how consumption of omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids (both. A cardiologist with the lsa school of medicine. Led to a novel investigation: an epidemiological study of heart disease in. Poverty and poor education exacerbated problems. Follow a large group of children over time. Study correlation between physical and lifestyle attribution with risk of developing heart disease in adulthood. How to find many children who wanted to do this study. He wanted to document progression of heart disease. He collected many organs including a heart. With the collection of hearts, transformed a heart disease. Followed children and young people from ages 5-17 at the local school system monitored them twice yearly. Nurses measured height, weight, smoking history, blood pressure, and blood lipid variables. After 17 returned for evaluation periodically up to age 45. Any patients who died would be autopsied.
