{"id":14177,"date":"2025-08-11T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:29:15","slug":"study-tiktok-rife-with-cholesterol-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/study-tiktok-rife-with-cholesterol-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: TikTok rife with cholesterol misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-924638 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-741369 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-366689 kc_text_block\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;\">Over 40% of the most-viewed TikTok videos on cholesterol are inaccurate, and more than a third are potentially harmful, according to a study presented at the American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention. Researchers analyzed 211 videos tagged #cholesterol or #highcholesterol and found that physician-created content was generally accurate but had lower engagement than videos from laypersons or other types of health care professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 18.75pt;\">\u00a0Full Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/ubdQCehuiFDGjcuPCigmqPCicNOcVs?format=multipart__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!m6Pn6KCiqcHi1_PPRIAYJ0d_Qi39nHxpUMBvNrQd-e5fZkAHGSHmmelVKefEcJNbhEbzyGi-gr2o2WC4A0db$\">Healio (free registration)\/Cardiology today<\/a> (8\/7)\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><!-- \/wp:post-content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14178,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions\/14178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}