Hyperlipidemia, caused by a high-fat diet, aggressively accelerates organ rejection

Date: June 16, 2015

Source: Tufts University

Summary:

Two studies demonstrate that hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol and high triglycerides in the blood) caused by a high-fat diet accelerates heart-transplant rejection in mice. The researchers also found that simply feeding mice a high-fat diet increased organ rejection.

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