一、胆固醇的发现 人类发现胆固醇已经有100多年的历史了。科学家第一次完全地提取出胆固醇是在胆囊的胆石中,所以就给它取了一个名字——cholesterol(意思是胆汁中的固体物质)。后来逐渐发现这种固体物质在人体的组织器官、血液中都存在,而且在动脉硬化的粥样斑块中发现了大量的胆固醇,含量极高。于是人们开始研究它与疾病特别是与一些血管疾病的关系。 First, the discovery of cholesterol Human discovery of cholesterol has been 100 years of history. For the first time scientists completely extracted cholesterol in gallbladder gallstones, so give it a name --cholesterol (meaning solid in bile). Later gradually found that this solid material in the human body tissues and blood, are present, but also in the atherosclerotic plaque found a lot of cholesterol, high levels. So people began to study its relationship with diseases, especially with some vascular diseases.