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HELP: re the cholesterol > serotonin question

Clinique Nutri-Santé Larose dlarose at granby.mtl.net
Thu Dec 19 21:25:32 EST 1996




> As many readers here may know, serotonin has been implicated in the
perplexing
> fact that lowering blood cholesterol, while it reduces heart attacks,
usually is
> associated with a comparable increase in mortality due to other causes,
notably
> suicide, homicide, and accidental death.  

This is all very nice theory, but the latest research on cholesterol failed
to show an increase in violent death or suicide. Look up through medline to
all the more recent data  on the subject





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