Key takeaways:

Many people use social media to search health-related content online.

Forty percent of the top videos on TikTok about cholesterol were deemed inaccurate.

BOSTON — Much of the health-related content about cholesterol on social media, in particular TikTok, is inaccurate, according to research presented at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention.

Due to increasing use of social media to search for health-related content, researchers conducted a study that looked at the top videos on TikTok using the search terms #cholesterol and #highcholesterol.

“Our study highlights the extent of cholesterol-related misinformation on TikTok — over 40% of the top-viewed videos were inaccurate and more than a third were potentially harmful,” Khush M. Kh

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