By: Matthew Kadey writing for Prevention
Healthy runners probably don’t lend much thought to cholesterol numbers. But more than 12 percent of American adults over the age of 20 have high cholesterol (levels greater than 240 mg/dL), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—another 95 million people have borderline high total cholesterol levels. And since there are no direct symptoms associated with elevated cholesterol, you could very well be running around with levels that might be putting your long-term health at risk.
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