Specific dietary changes that we should recommend for elevated LDL cholesterol

This article was first published on October 9, 2024. A high proportion of mortality and morbidity—heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure, and so on—is caused by atherosclerosis. Elevated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is one of the key risk factors for atherosclerosis (Grundy et al., 2018). Many of my patients, current and past, have had elevated low-density…