P516 516 TELEINF 03:32:16 "BAD CHOLESTEROL" SIZE LINKED TO HEART DISEASE WASHINGTON - The smaller the bits of "bad cholesterol" in a person's blood plasma, the greater the risk of coronary heart disease, a new study suggests. Published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study compared the size of "bad cholesterol" particles in 134 people who had died of coronary heart disease or survived a heart attack with those in healthy people. Dr. Christopher Gardner at the Stanford University school of medicine in California concluded that the diameter of ldl particles in unhealthy men and women was "significantly smaller." A separate study published in the same issue of JAMA established a link between the size of LDL particles and the risk of heart see njxt page >>>