Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
...ht and obesity, high blood pressure, and highblood cholesterol -- major risk factors for cardiovascular disease," said KarenDonato, coordinator of the NHLBI Obesity Education Initiative. "NHLBI recognizesthe many ways that community park and recreation departments positively affectthe well-being of people and we...Cholesterol lowering margarine may not benefit those already eating a healthy diet
...in Liverpool argues that the evidence of Benecol's cholesterol lowering properties is based on trials with people... of about 35 per cent of total energy intake and a cholesterol intake above 300mg per day, says Dr van Heyningen. These people achieved a mean reduction in total ...New biological target identified for cholesterol-lowering drugs
...urnal of the American HeartAssociation. High blood cholesterol levels and inflammation both may contribute to the...port. The changes seem unrelated to any decline in cholesterol levels. Even whenpatients in the placebo group were able to lower their low-density lipoprotein-- t...Obesity drugs not a quick fix for achieving weight loss
...can improve apatient's medical outlook by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure and byameliorating diabetes and other conditions exacerbated by obesity. Maintaining lifestyle changes and keeping weight off for life is adifficult proposition. But researchers at Washington University School ofMedicine in...Amputation rates are rising in elderly despite advances in treatment
...art disease,diabetes, severe hypertension and high cholesterol levels. Feinglass's co-researchers on this study were Jacqueline L. Brown, M.D.,clinical instructor and faculty development fellow in general internal medical;Anthony LoSasso, research professor; Larry M. Manheim, research scientist andprofess...Cholesterol lowering in elderly reduces heart disease and strokes
...ol Education Program (NCEP). The reportnotes that cholesterol lowering also has been shown to reduce the risk of...investigators have questioned the value of testing cholesterol andtreating high levels in the elderly," said NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. "But an overview of...UCSF researchers report new risk factors for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
...ations (21percent reduction), drugs to lower blood cholesterol (43 percent reduction), andnonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (28 percent reduction). Further, an increased number of sexual partners in both men and women andincreased use of marijuana among men was associated with a decreased risk ofdeveloping n...Cedars-Sinai is first site in California offering LDL apheresis to treat severehypercholesterolemia
...east twocholesterol-lowering agents, but whose LDL cholesterol still remains greaterthan 200." According to Dr. D...-Sinai patients with all availabletechnologies for cholesterol management," says P.K. Shah, M.D., Director ofCedars-Sinai's Division of Cardiology, noting that thi...Cholesterol guidelines can reduce recurrent heart problems
Current cholesterol guidelines can prevent a significant proportion of...s of life. "Many people have assumed that lowering cholesterol levels before the onset ofheart disease would have a powerful effect as a primary prevention tool," ...Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
...nefits of intensified control of high blood sugar, cholesterol andhypertension. The Study of Health Outcomes of Weight Loss (SHOW) trial willfocus on the benefits of weight loss in obese individuals with diabetes.Together, they will provide important information about the effectiveness ofseveral new medications...UT Southwestern to study lipodystrophy syndrome in HIV-infected patients
...t - hasits own serious complications: diabetes and cholesterol disorders. Both increasethe risk of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Americans. The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at UT SouthwesternMedical Center at Dallas a four-year, $1.8 million grant to study lipodystrophysyndrome in H......ids in the blood, and a high total cholesterol:HDL cholesterol (the 'good' cholesterol) ratio. Dyslipidaemia is s...ong-term improvements in the total cholesterol:HDL cholesterol ratio . Investigators looked at pooled data from 534 patients who have received rosiglitazone mon...Researchers find elevated cholesterol is risk factor for preeclampsia
...and Women's Hospital (BWH) has found that elevated cholesterol levelsappear to be a risk factor for preeclampsia,...ngincreases in blood lipids [fatty substances like cholesterol and triglycerides],we examined more closely the role of obesity and elevated lipids in bothpreeclamp......culardisease risk factors, including decreased LDL cholesterol [the bad cholesterol],reduced blood pressure, decreased blood glucose levels and improved insulinsensitivity," Espeland said. But he said he knew of no studies that directly measure whether weightloss slows progression of atherosclerosis. "S...Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
... aggressivecontrol of high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. Each patient will befollowed for at least ...of elevated levels oflow-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol will be compared with conventionalcontrol. Doctors will shoot to lower LDL below 100 in patients wit...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
...tion that leads the body toproduce excess insulin, cholesterol and body fat and appears to be a risk factorfor heart disease. "The study design best suited to answer this question is a family study,where a large number of family members -- brothers, sisters, their parents, andtheir children -- are recrui...New light on the role of microbial pathogens in atherosclerosis
...rs (such as smoking, obesity,hypertension and high cholesterol levels) are known to play a role inatherosclerosis, but various lines of evidence also suggest that microbialpathogens are involved in the formation of atheroma plaque (i.e.atherosclerosis) or in its rupture (potentially leading to cardiovasculareven...New therapy raises good cholesterol results in regression of heart disease in mice
...orming high-density lipoprotein or HDL, the "good" cholesterol -- researcherswere able to shrink artery-blocking ...here has been a tremendous interest in raising HDL cholesterol levels, notonly as a way to prevent heart disease, but also to help shrink the existingblockages in ...Soy substances slow prostate cancer growth in animals
... been shown to reduce blood cholesterol levels," he said. "The bottom line is that proper clinical studies need to be done to identify the benefits and potential side effects of these compounds." ...Gene variant increases heart disease risk, even when cholesterol is normal
...LANTA, Nov. 7 -- A gene already implicated in high cholesterol may pose yet another risk for heart disease, accor... protein involved in the transport and disposal of cholesterol in the body. Sitting on the surface of circulating blood-fat particles, apo E normally binds to liv...