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How can high blood cholesterol affect the heart?
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High CHOL : Specially high LDL and low hdl, may accumulate through a complex process of injury at the endothelium. Inner part of the coronary artery. That accumulation it's call the atheromatous plague. Also compose of other inflammatory cells. That formation may grow and occlude the artery increasing risk of heart attack.
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