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Letter: Cholesterol carriage

Published 17 September 2014

From Kathryn Stewart

Clare Wilson reports research on the relationship between genes for proteins that “carry bad cholesterol” and longevity (6 September, p 10). Could it be that the answer to long life lies in how cholesterol is transported in our bodies, rather than which type is carried?

My family has a long history of living into their 90s, with very high cholesterol.
San Diego, California, US

Issue no. 2987 published 20 September 2014

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