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Why are Amish More at Risk of Having High Cholesterol?

July 27, 2014

In addition to their neat farms and tidy gardens, their penchant for quilts and chicken potpie, and their work ethic and thriftiness, the Pennsylvania Dutch may share another quality.

A dangerously high cholesterol level.

A unique new screening effort is trying to find people with an inherited disorder that leads to the high level, and an aggressive cardiovascular disease that results from it.

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