New insights about how ‘bad’ cholesterol works in the body

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Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how ‘bad’ cholesterol, known as low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol or LDL-C, builds up in the body. The researchers were able to show for the first time how the main structural protein of LDL binds to its receptor — a process that starts the clearing of LDL from the blood — and what happens when that process gets impaired.

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