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Lowering Cholesterol Help Fight Diabetes Thursday, April 10, 2008 - Iddo Genuth Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent — and possibly reverse — hardening of the arteries, according to new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. Hardening of the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis, is the number one cause of heart disease and can lead to heart attack, stroke, and death.
(source: nih.gov)
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