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Tuesday 20 Oct 2015 - 14:24 Makkah mean time-7-1-1437
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Geneva, (IINA) - A study from Geneva University Hospital has found recently that taking the stairs at work rather than the lift helps to lower bad cholesterol, Mail Online reported.
Researchers at the University hospital asked 67 healthy hospital workers to take the stairs at work rather than the lift for three months, and monitored the levels of a naturally occurring protein, Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), that interferes with the liver's ability to remove cholesterol from the blood.
According to the study in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, the results showed a significant drop in PCSK9 levels and in 'bad' Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (from 3.5 to 3.3 on average).
It is unclear how exercise has this effect, but this is the first evidence of the direct and significant impact of such small lifestyle changes on lowering cholesterol in healthy people.
From its side the British National Health Service (NHS) says healthy adults should have an LDL cholesterol level of 3 or less.
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