Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh
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Right.
But at the time, the evidence was not as firm, especially for medication, and so that's why it went forward.
By the early 1980s, after an average of seven years follow-up for each participant, the results were in.
And they were unambiguous.
Lowering blood cholesterol in high-risk men reduced the risk of heart attack.
Period.
Those who took the full dose of treatment had a 35% reduction in total cholesterol and a 49% decline in the rate of cardiac events.
But even those who didn't follow the treatment to a T, like the cholestyramine, had lowered cholesterol and fewer heart attacks.
Now, the study was not perfect.
But when the results were published in 1983, it led to a moment of reckoning for the field.
Like it was no longer enough to simply acknowledge that this relationship exists.
Something had to be done about it.
Right.
And that something was to be decided at the 1984 NIH Consensus Development Conference.
So there was a panel of experts at this conference who came up with a set of guidelines for what would be considered high or low blood cholesterol for certain ages and how that fell out.
And also diet and exercise recommendations for how to reduce cholesterol.
They also advocated for a nationwide educational program in which general practitioners as well as the general public were taught about the importance of cholesterol.
I love that.
Yep.
This conference had a substantial impact over the next decade with the percentage of physicians pointing out LDL as an important marker for the risk of heart disease that increased from 1986 to 1995 from 34% to 75%.
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