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Marsha F. Goldsmith

JAMA. 1990;264(23):2976.

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COUCH POTATOES—or at least the younger spuds—got mashed again at the recent American Heart Association meeting. In Dallas, Tex, pediatric researchers from the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, reported that they had found an "amazing correlation" between television watching and high blood cholesterol levels in young persons 2 to 20 years of age.

The findings were presented by Thomas K. Hei, a premedical student at the school. Hei was a coinvestigator with Kurt V. Gold, MD, a resident in pediatrics; Nathan Wong, MD, assistant adjunct professor of medicine; and Paul Qaqundah, MD, chair of the School Health and Education Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Southern California chapter.

The study was done to evaluate risk factors as indicators for elevated blood cholesterol concentrations in children. Cooperating Southern California pediatricians screened 543 boys and 523 girls and found blood cholesterol levels of 5.15 mmol/L or higher (200 mg/dL) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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