Cardiac concerns raised over Mediterranean diets
Friday 28th May 2010
A person could be at greater risk of a heart attack by following a diet with high levels of good cholesterol, a new report suggests.
The findings, published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, represent the first study to indicate having a Mediterranean-style diet could be damaging for certain patients due to a generic mutation.
It had been thought that high-density lipoproteins (HDL), or good cholesterol, helped the body by removing excess levels of low-density lipoproteins, or bad cholesterol.
Pathologist Professor James Corsetti, from the University of Rochester, New York, said it is "counterintuitive that increasing good cholesterol, which we've always thought of as protective, leads to negative consequences".
He confirmed that the team found "high HDL cholesterol is in fact associated with risk in a certain group of patients".
Coronary heart disease is prevalent in the UK, with the NHS estimating around 300,000 people have a cardiac arrest each year.
Written by James Puckle
Written by Alex Franklin Stortford
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