Cholesterol passport for adolescents to halt the world’s deadliest disease – atherosclerosis
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights that everyone has the right to life could as well be extended to include the right to an “elevated cholesterol-free life”, a viewpoint by Dr Andrew Agbaje of the University of Eastern Finland, published in Frontiers in Pediatrics, concludes.Globally, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease has remained the leading cause of death in the past decades, despite huge advancements in medical treatment. The staggering cost of long-term treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease forms a significant proportion of annual health expenditure.