High cholesterol "is a threat in all women"
20 Feb 2007
Researchers in the US say even healthy women are at an increased risk of stroke if they have high cholesterol. A team at Harvard reports in Neurology shows that even women with no history of stroke are more than twice as likely as women with normal cholesterol levels to have one. Team leader Dr Tobias Kurth says, “Some links between stroke and cholesterol have been reported in men and in populations at high risk for or with high cardiovascular events. The findings here for women are clearer, though, and show that even in apparently healthy women, there’s a risk.”