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Akira Endo, Scholar of Statins That Reduce Heart Disease, Dies at 90
15 June 2024 at 09:21
The Japanese biochemist found in the 1970s that cholesterol-lowering drugs lowered the level of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, in the blood.
Akira Endo in an undated photo. He grew more than 6,000 fungi in the early 1970s as part of his research on cholesterol.
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