Association Between Countries' Economy, Health-Care System And Cholesterol Rates

People with a history of high cholesterol who come from higher income countries or countries with lower out-of-pocket healthcare expenses, as well as those from countries with high performing healthcare systems, defined using World Health Organization (WHO) indices, tend to have lower subsequent cholesterol rates, according to new research in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.
"We found that patients living in countries in the highest third of gross national income or WHO

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