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[6] [8] Malhotra is co-author of a book called The Pioppi Diet. [9] His views on diet and health have been criticized by the British Heart Foundation as "misleading and wrong", and his public questioning of the need to ever use statins has been condemned as a danger to public health. [10]
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
The New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure is a 1987 health book by Robert Kowalski, who wrote it as a personal recollection about dealing with cholesterol issues. [1] Kowalski wrote the book after having two coronary bypass surgeries and a heart attack. [ 2 ]
Armitage led the 1999 Medical Research Council and British Heart Foundation Heart Protection Study, which included 20,000 participants. [6] The study is the largest that investigates the use of statins to prevent cardiovascular disease. [6]