Back in the early to mid-1900s, more people died of heart disease, and experts think this was because people started smoking more and eating foods that raised the bad cholesterol in their blood.

Back in the early 1900s to the 1960s, more people died of heart disease, and that was probably because they started smoking more and eating foods that made their blood cholesterol go up.

Back in the early 1900s to the 1960s, more people died of heart disease, and that was linked to people smoking more and eating foods that made their blood cholesterol go up — and doctors found clogged arteries in people’s hearts after they died.

In places where people eat more cholesterol from food, more people tend to die from heart disease over 25 years — it’s not proof one causes the other, but they often go together.

In places where people eat more cholesterol from food, more people tend to die from heart disease over 25 years — it’s not proof that cholesterol causes it, but there’s a noticeable link.

In countries where people eat more cholesterol from food, more people tend to die from heart disease over 25 years — and this pattern shows up consistently across 16 different groups of people in seven countries.