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The Medical Minute: Consider your A1C levels to monitor heart health

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The math might seem simple. Foods high in cholesterol plus no exercise equals heart trouble. But as it turns out, high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the variety they call “bad”) isn’t the only diet-driven culprit behind perils like stroke and cardiac failure. Sugar is just as bad for your heart as cholesterol – if not worse, says Dr. Daniel Lodge, a thoracic surgeon at Penn...

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