Lipoproteins and atherogenesis: current concepts

D Steinberg, JL Witztum - Jama, 1990 - jamanetwork.com
TODAY there is no longer any doubt about the causative relationship between
hypercholesterolemia and premature atherosclerosis. The National Institutes of Health
Consensus Conference on Lowering Blood Cholesterol Levels 1 and the National
Cholesterol Education Program that grew out of it 2 were the culmination of many years of
experimental and clinical research, including, importantly, a number of positive intervention
trials that brought to a close the so-called Cholesterol Controversy, 3 ie, the controversy as …