"That LDL and HDL are the two species of lipoproteins that physicians now measure when we get a checkup is a result of the oversimplification of the science, not the physiological importance of the particles of themselves."
— Gary Taubes

January 1, 1970

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Chapter 9, “Triglycerides and the Complications of Cholesterol” (p. 154)