Diet, Medication, and Cholesterol:

A Tutorial and Model


The cholesterol model provides a tutorial of HDL and LDL metabolism and a model that permits
simulation of changing diet or taking cholesterol-lowering medications.  You can open it and run it with different choices of diet and activity using STELLA 6.0 from High Performance Systems, Inc.

This is a complex model with a number of attached images.  The images work best if all are put into a single folder that also contains the model, because STELLA looks for an image folder when it opens.  If you have problems with this model, please contact jhargrov@fcs.uga.edu.

Download the Simulation Model (PC users):

Cholesterol Model - Learn about the interaction of LDL and HDL cholesterol, as well as the influence of dietary fats, cholesterol lowering medications, and cholesterol binders.

STELLA models can usually be changed between PC and Macintosh by adding (PC) or deleting (Mac) the ".stm" suffix.