Relationship Between CVD and Serum Cholesterol

of death in the United States, accounting for $444 billion in healthcare expenditures in 2010.1, 2 Reducing dietary cholesterol has long been part of the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) guidelines on lifestyle management. Current AHA/ ACC guidelines state that insufficient evidence exists to determine whether lowering dietary cholesterol intake reduces serum cholesterol, but still recommend limiting intake to less than 300 mg per day.3† The Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet promotes less than 200 mg per day4 and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet recommends less than 150 mg per day.5