How to Use cholesterol in a Sentence

cholesterol

noun
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  • Did your doctor check your cholesterol?
  • Sampling fast-food burgers; how to make them at home; high cholesterol; new salad recipes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
  • High levels of cholesterol can cause a white, gray or blue ring to form around the colored part of your eye, called the iris.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The emotional and financial strain has raised her blood pressure and cholesterol.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In stage one, the artery walls take up materials like cholesterol and form plaques that narrow the opening through which blood flows.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 4 Feb. 2022
  • For even more nourishment, the formula has cholesterol, squalane, and fatty acids, plus soothing niacinamide and allantoin.
    — Emily Orofino, Allure, 24 Oct. 2024
  • There's something about walking up to a gaggle of smiling folks munching on cinnamon almonds, roasted corn-on-the-cob, turkey legs or black walnut ice cream that does a heart (if not one's cholesterol) good.
    — Lisa Baker Gibbs My Roots Are Showing, arkansasonline.com, 24 Oct. 2024
  • And if this wasn’t enough, ashwagandha also boosts brain function and memory, lowers cholesterol and even has cancer-preventing properties!
    — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Shkreli also hiked the price of two other drugs: Chenodal, used to treat a genetic cholesterol disorder, and Thiola, which is used to treat kidney stones.
    — Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The guidelines encourage a series of healthy behaviors to help people avoid some common risk factors for strokes like obesity, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.
    — Sam Tupper, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Your body needs some amount of cholesterol to work well.
    — Korin Miller, Verywell Health, 20 Feb. 2024
  • And that means their own cells can’t contain cholesterol, the target that the saponins bind to and pierce.
    — Wired, 14 July 2022
  • In four months my A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol went up.
    — Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 6 July 2024
  • Test for and treat high LDL cholesterol from midlife onwards.
    — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Beans are a good source of fiber and a low-fat, low-calorie, cholesterol-free source of protein.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2022
  • The doctor says my results are very good (cholesterol is 140).
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Plus, Cocomels’ are proud to be free of the top eighty allergens as well as cholesterol, corn syrup, and dairy.
    — Ashley Martens, redbookmag.com, 10 May 2023
  • This twice-a-year blood test screens for TSH, total cholesterol, blood glucose and more.
    — Elsie Boskamp, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Egg whites are an excellent source of protein and are low in fat and cholesterol.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • This is the type of cholesterol which leads to plaque formation, causing strokes and heart attacks.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Stenosis is caused by a buildup of blood clots and plaque—a mixture of fatty substances and cholesterol—on the inner walls of the artery.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health.com, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Like cholesterol, it's made in the body, and people have varying levels of the chemical in their blood.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 6 June 2024
  • These include lower blood pressure, BMI, and cholesterol, to name a few.
    — Will Franke, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Wow, 564 milliliters per deciliter of blood cholesterol sounds fatal by itself.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Eggs, long demonized because of the amount of cholesterol found in the yolk, have now been given a dietary green light.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Piedmontese beef is known to be lower in fat and cholesterol.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
  • Statins, drugs that are used to lower one's cholesterol, can save lives - but come with steep side effects for up to a third of people who need them.
    — Dr. Kaviya Sathyakumar, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Fazal said since starting the classes her cholesterol level has gone down.
    — Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Fon’t let your cholesterol or blood pressure, for instance, run amok.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • This is the type of fat that can cause LDL cholesterol — the bad kind — to build up in your blood vessels, which also increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024

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