Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases: News and Research on Hypercholesterolemia

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Why won't people take their statins?

Cardiovascular disease—the thickening and hardening of arteries causing increased risk of strokes and heart attacks—is the No. 1 cause of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. High cholesterol is the ...

160 million years of life lost to obesity in 2019

Researchers at the National University in Singapore and colleagues in the US and China undertook a two-decade metabolic analysis of Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports. They have published their findings in the journal ...

How to reduce your risk for coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease is the most common type of heart disease, diagnosed in more than 20 million people and responsible for more than 350,000 deaths in the U.S, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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