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Ronald Krauss

Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute

Ronald Krauss, M.D., is the director of atherosclerosis research at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute and an adjunct professor at UCSF and UC Berkeley. His research focuses on lipid metabolism, having developed an assay to quantify low-density lipoprotein (LDL) particle size and concentration. His published work covers dietary effects on cardiometabolic disease and insulin sensitivity, statin responses, and the relationship between cholesterol regulation, genetics, and Alzheimer's disease.

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0:09:43unverifiedvery lowDr. Ronald Krauss on LDL Cholesterol, Particle Size, Heart D

Humans clear LDL from the blood much less efficiently than almost any other mammalian species, resulting in higher baseline circulating blood LDL levels.

"we don't have a very efficient way of removing LDL from the blood, so our levels are much higher than almost any other species, certainly most other mammals. You have to feed an enormous amount of cholesterol in order to get anything like what we have in our blood." (said at 0:09:43)

No published record matching the comparative clearance rate of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in humans versus other mammalian species was located; this does not prove the claim false.

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