From cholesterol at least five crucial hormones are made, each with a very different task: progesterone, aldosterone, cortisol, testosterone and oestradiol.
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Heart disease
- Nuanced view of the diet–disease link
high cholesterol is a risk factor, but only in those with genetic predispositions to high cholesterol, and even in these people the beneficial effects of eating less fat are small
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The status of a person’s job was more able to predict their likelihood of a heart attack than obesity, smoking or high blood pressure. Somebody in a low-grade job, such as a janitor, was nearly four times as likely to have a heart attack as a permanent secretary at the top of the heap. Indeed, even if the permanent secretary was fat, hypertensive or a smoker, he was still less likely to suffer a heart attack at a given age than a thin, non-smoking, low-blood-pressure janitor.
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