Extended essay: To what extent does a plant-based diet lower the risk of coronary artery disease?
when compared to vegetarians. Nevertheless, it was expected for both vegetarians and
fish eaters to have more or less the same mortality rates because HDL-cholesterol is
necessary when it comes to eliminating excess LDL-cholesterol from the body, which
helps prevent heart disease. 23
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ajcn.nutrition.org/content/70/3/525s.full, 01.10.2016
22E. J. Behrman, Venkat Gopalan, ‘’Cholesterol and Plants’’, chemistry.osu.edu, https://
chemistry.osu.edu/~gopalan.5/file/7B.PDF, 15.09.2016
23 K Mahdy Ali,’’Cardiovascular disease risk reduction by raising HDL cholesterol - current
therapies and future opportunities’’, US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health,
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3504986/, 26.10.2016
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