Extended essay: To what extent does a plant-based diet lower the risk of coronary artery disease?
31 Still, these findings have
little back-up and LDL-cholesterol levels need further investigation, before we can rule out
the possibility of it being one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease.
29 D. Steinberg,’’In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the lipid hypothesis of atherosclerosis’’,
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30 et al. Sacks FM,’’Effect of ingestion of meat on plasma cholesterol of vegetarians’’, US National
Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7019459,
02.10.2016
31Uffe Ravnskov,’Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein
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