Food-based approach to lowering cholesterol provides significant healthcare cost savings

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/m-fat081020.php

 

 

News Release 13-Aug-2020
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A new study is the first to show a food-based approach using clinically-proven diet interventions to lower cholesterol levels, such as Step One Foods®, provides significant healthcare cost savings.

The study, publishing online in the journal Current Cardiology Reports, analyzed the healthcare costs associated with having elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels among commercially insured people 50 years old and over and Medicare users. The analysis found those with high LDL-C levels with commercial insurance incurred a medical cost of $242 per member per month (PMPM), or 44% higher than those with normal cholesterol levels, and a medical cost of $449 per member per month, or 66% higher those with normal cholesterol levels, in the Medicare target population. 


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