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The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease.They wanted to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases.
The Heart Protection Study was a randomized controlled trial run by the Clinical Trial Service Unit, and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) in the United Kingdom.
In 2023, the World Heart Federation published a report which stated that high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol are a major risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and that elevated LDL cholesterol contributed to 3.8 million deaths in 2021. [6]
A 2021 study linking strawberries to heart health found eating 2.5 servings of strawberries per day for four weeks improved LDL cholesterol levels in adults with obesity and high cholesterol.
The British Heart Foundation criticised these "misleading and wrong" claims and several researchers took issue with the methodology of the report on which Malhotra based his claims. [ 10 ] [ 67 ] [ 68 ] Prof Louis Levy, the head of nutrition science at Public Health England says "There is good evidence that a high intake of saturated fat ...
Malhotra, who has a London-based cardiology practice, is the author of A Statin-Free Life, which was based on claims called “misleading and wrong” by the British Heart Foundation, and The ...
The project has the support of the government, the life sciences industry, the NHS, and charities such as Alzheimer's Society, British Heart Foundation, and Cancer Research UK. [ 2 ] £79 million was provided by the UK government via the UK Research and Innovation body, and in early 2022 a further £100 million was expected from the life ...
Hypocholesterolemia is the presence of abnormally low (hypo-) levels of cholesterol in the blood (-emia). A defect in the body's production of cholesterol can lead to adverse consequences as well. Cholesterol is an essential component of mammalian cell membranes and is required to establish proper membrane permeability and fluidity.