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Not Knowing How Cholesterol Works
By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer, if more complicated, picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The...
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Raising Your HDL Cholestrol
Aerobic exercise Lose weight Stop smoking Cut out the trans fatty acids Alcohol. With apologies to the American Heart Association, which discourages doctors from telling their patients about the...
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Cranberry Juice Increases HDL
Calgary, AB – Flavonoid-rich cranberry juice may help increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, according to the findings of a study presented here at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress...
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Top Five Foods to Lower Your LDL Cholesterol
Oatmeal and Oat bran Walnuts and Almonds Fish and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Olive Oil Foods fortified with plant sterols or stanols Mayo Clinic
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New Class of Medications for LDL Reduction
Experimental Drug That Mimics Thryoid Hormone Safely Lowers ‘Bad’ Cholesterol ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2010) — People whose “bad” cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite...
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Slideshow: Lowering Cholesterol
Click to View: Emedicine Health Comment: EMedicine spent some time making sure this slideshow was done right. Kudos.
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Cholseterol Not Good Indicator of Heart Attack Risk
Newswise — A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a...
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Sprinkle Three Tablespoons of Flax Seed…
A new study from Iowa State University’s Nutrition and Wellness Research Center (NWRC) may give men a way to combat high cholesterol without drugs — if they don’t mind sprinkling some flaxseed into...
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Red Rice Yeast as an Alternative to Statins
TUESDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) — Chinese red yeast rice, a dietary supplement made by fermenting the yeast Monascus purpureus over rice, modestly lowers cholesterol in patients intolerant to...
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Statins for Everyone!! (Not Such a Good Idea!!)
With the government’s blessing, a drug giant is about to expand the market for its blockbuster cholesterol medication Crestor to a new category of customers: as a preventive measure for millions of...
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President Obama’s Cholesterol Levels
President Obama got a pretty good report from his physical examination this week, but one result has raised a bit of concern among his physicians. Since his last exam in July, 2008, the President’s...
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Wall Street Journal June 15, 2010 Some prominent doctors are pushing a heretical notion: Physicians have been prescribing statins to some of the wrong people. For years, Americans have been taking...
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