Health

Air pollution exposure may raise heart disease risk

Exposure to air pollution can worsen blood sugar levels, cholesterol and other risk factors for heart disease, particularly in people with diabetes, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of ...

Diabetes

New gene for familial high cholesterol

New research from Denmark reveals the gene that explains one quarter of all familial hypercholesterolemia with very high blood cholesterol. Familial hypercholesterolemia is the most common genetic disorder leading to premature ...

Oncology & Cancer

Cholesterol levels, not statins, influence colorectal cancer risk

Long-term use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins does not appear to decrease a patient's risk of colorectal cancer, suggests a new, large case-control study from Penn Medicine researchers published this week ...

Cardiology

Evacetrapib fails to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events

Despite lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), known as "bad" cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good" cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol ...

Cardiology

Many women not properly informed of heart risk by their doctors

Although nearly three-quarters of women taking a recent survey had one or more risk factors for heart disease, a startlingly small proportion—just 16 percent—had actually been told by their doctors that these factors ...

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