Cholesterol tests 'of little value'
Cholesterol levels in blood are unreliable as an indicator of future heart disease, according to a report today in The Lancet. The study, by scientists at St Bartholomew's hospital, London, and in the US, found that three-quarters of deaths could not have been predicted. It monitored 21,500 men over a 12-year period.
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