Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Currently statins are prescribed to patients based on their future risk of cardiovascular disease - mainly driven by age - which excludes many individuals ...
Mar 11, 2016
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The heart, so integral to life, sits in its protective cage in the chest, going about its work without any external sign to the owner. In the West, where one in four people die of cardiovascular disease, the importance of ...
Mar 21, 2018
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March is National Nutrition Month, which makes this a good time to take a look at butter, margarine and heart health.
Mar 18, 2021
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Current guidelines recommend lowering cholesterol for heart disease risk reduction. New findings indicate that if cholesterol dips too low, it may boost the risk of hemorrhagic stroke, according to researchers.
Jul 2, 2019
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Six widely used dietary supplements promoted for improving heart health did not effectively lower LDL or "bad" cholesterol in comparison to a common low-dose statin medication or placebo, according to late breaking science ...
Nov 7, 2022
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Few classes of drugs have had such a transformative effect on the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as have statins, prescribed to reduce total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. However, some clinicians ...
Dec 2, 2014
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Are you trying to remember which fat is the good fat to use in the kitchen? If you are confused about whether to use unsaturated fats, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated or saturated fats when cooking, it's understandable. ...
Dec 20, 2022
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Heart disease stubbornly remains one of the biggest killers in the UK, where there are 7m people living with the condition. During the past 60 years, the management of cholesterol has become an important weapon in the fight ...
Jan 26, 2018
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The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol—the so-called "bad" cholesterol—by 50 percent in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia whose condition is resistant to standard ...
Nov 15, 2020
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In the disease atherosclerosis, cholesterol-containing plaques form in vessel walls, causing arteries to narrow and greatly increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke. Currently, atherosclerosis is the number 1 killer ...
Apr 12, 2018
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