Heart disease patients taking evolocumab in addition to a statin to achieve extremely low levels of cholesterol do not show increased incidence of neurocognitive impairments, including memory loss or reduction in executive ...
May 4, 2020
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Reasonably good evidence suggests that most diets result in similar modest weight loss and improvements in cardiovascular risk factors over a period of six months, compared with a usual diet, finds a study published by The ...
Apr 1, 2020
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The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to near-normal levels among patients with a rare cholesterol disorder, meeting the primary endpoint in the first randomized placebo-controlled ...
Mar 30, 2020
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The cholesterol drug alirocumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by 35.6% compared to placebo in adult patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), according to a phase three clinical trial ...
Mar 30, 2020
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Researchers from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford have found that while having high cholesterol levels does not influence your risk of aortic or mitral valve regurgitation, it does increase ...
Feb 20, 2020
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Tom Waddell lost about 40 pounds, but his cholesterol level did not drop, it skyrocketed.
Feb 4, 2020
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Eating two apples a day has been shown to help keep cholesterol down and fight heart disease risk according to new research.
Dec 16, 2019
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Reducing dietary cholesterol by focusing on an overall heart-healthy dietary pattern that replaces saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats remains good advice for keeping artery-clogging LDL cholesterol levels healthy. Such ...
Dec 16, 2019
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Following a vegan diet for five weeks may decrease risk factors for heart disease, new research shows.
Dec 3, 2019
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Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis announced over the weekend it would dish out $9.7 billion (8.8 billion euros) to acquire US firm Medicines Company, in a move aimed at boosting its cardiovascular treatment portfolio.
Nov 25, 2019
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