High cholesterol levels during adolescence can lead to structural and functional heart damage, which gets worse by young adulthood. The results of the study, which was carried out in association with the Universities of Bristol and Exeter in the UK and Eastern Finland, were published in Atherosclerosis. The most fatal illness in the world is heart disease. Children and adolescents with elevated cholesterol and dyslipidemia are more likely to die young in their mid-forties and develop subclinical atherosclerosis by the middle of their twenties. Teenagers without genetic predisposition to high cholesterol levels are more likely to have high
According to The Hippocratic Post, high cholesterol in adolescence leads to early heart disease.
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