All about good, bad cholesterol

"The word cholesterol may sound harmless. After all, one dictionary defines it simply as a white substance found in animal tissue. In truth, cholesterol can be very dangerous and accounts for a growing number of heart disease cases in the United States, and it may be implicated in many of the 500,000 heart disease deaths here each year.That makes cholesterol a silent killer, said Dr. Elena Citkowitz, who runs the Cholesterol Management Center at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven and is director of its Cardiac Rehabilitation Program."


The Connecticut Post Online - All about good, bad cholesterol