HDL -- 'good' cholesterol -- helps bypass surgery
..."In this study, individuals with low levels of HDL cholesterol were more likely to die or eventually need additional surgery. This study shows that HDL cholesterol may be more significant than LDL, the "bad" cholesterol, in predicting the long-term outcome of coro...New sterol spread can reduce bad cholesterol
... oils. The substances are structurally similar to cholesterol so they interfere with cholesterol absorption in the intestines. The good news is that the sterol spread seems to lower LDL -- low-dens...More bad news for cocaine users: Drug can triple risk of aneurysm
...study had high blood pressure, 71 percent had high cholesterol levels and 95 percent were cigarette smokers. "The study provides evidence of further risk of cardiac damage from cocaine use, and suggests that cocaine use causes blood vessel damage and accelerates atherosclerosis," says Satran. "Furthermore, we d...Traditional Chinese diet helps ward off heart disease
...icals are unstable molecules that can combine with cholesterol to form oxidized cholesterol. In this form, cholesterol is more likely to collect on the blood vessels, forming fatty deposits that lead to heart attacks an...Robotics go where no surgeon has gone before
...r heart arteries that were blocked by a buildup of cholesterol deposits. Over time, the deposits can totally block blood flow to the heart, triggering a heart attack. The robotic surgery required making three small holes in the chest. Endoscopic surgery uses two surgical instruments and a tiny camera-and-li...Spouses of heart disease patients face high risks themselves
...he 170 couples did both members know their current cholesterol level. There were also similarities in current and past smoking histories and exercise levels, indicating other ways spouses share a high-risk lifestyle, Macken says. Twice as many women as men continued to smoke following the male patient's heart ...Impotence may be early warning of heart disease
...tion went away when they quit smoking or got their cholesterol levels under control," he says. None of the pati...isease including cigarette smoking, elevated total cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of heart disease. Treadmill exercise test...Wake Forest study finds both prevention and treatment needed to control heart disease
...nd drug treatment strategies are needed to control cholesterol and reduce the risk of death from heart disease, a.....,M.D., Ph.D, and his colleagues looked at total cholesterol records in people born as long ago as 1887, using four major national health surveys totaling 49,536......allstones are formed when microscopic particles of cholesterol are precipitated in the gallbladder from bile, whi...may lead to strategies that may prevent or reverse cholesterol gallstone formation, one of the commonest and most expensive digestive diseases in the Western world...Gene therapy reverses heart disease in mice
... key protein involved in transporting and clearing cholesterol from the body. The animals getting the apoE gene had significant reductions in total cholesterol and triglycerides, an increased level of beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and ...Hypertension drug effective at preventing atherosclerosis
...isease, were fed a high-fat diet that raised their cholesterol levels to about 300. From previous studies, the re...s that received Losartan. There were no changes in cholesterol or blood pressure levels that could have accounted for the difference. "What we have is further...Anger-prone people are more likely to have heart attacks
... of risk factors such as smoking, having diabetes, cholesterol levels and excess weight," she says. The study used a prospective design. In this kind of study design, individuals are free of heart disease at the beginning of the study. Prospective studies provide more convincing evidence than many other types......ashington D.C. ApoE is a lipoprotein that carries cholesterol in the blood. The exact role the ApoE4 allele plays in the pathogenesis of AD or in the memory decline of cognitively impaired elderly is unclear presently. Furthermore, much of the evidence concerning a correlation between ApoE4 copy number and th...Family history of high cholesterol often not detected until middle age
...e registry study Families with a history of high cholesterol are being denied early treatment to reduce the ris...of families identified as having a history of high cholesterol with the estimated frequency of the condition. They found that only about a quarter of the cases pre...Hormone therapy doesn't slow heart disease, despite improvements in cholesterol
...rt disease in older women, despite improvements in cholesterol levels.The results of the study, the Estrogen Repl...the women taking estrogen alone, low-density "bad" cholesterol decreased an average of 9.4 percent and high-density "good" cholesterol increased by 18.8 percent. F...Novartis receives FDA approval for LESCOL XL 80 mg
...percent median decrease in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with dyslipidemia, and a 25 pe... percent mean increase in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) in patients with primary mixed dyslipidemia (Fredrickson Type IIb), as compared with LESCOL ...Effective Clinical Practice, Sept/Oct 2000 highlights
... team to adjust their drug regimens achieved lower cholesterol levels than a control group. Eighteen of 25 patien...percent) in the intervention group reached the LDL cholesterol goal of 100 mg/dL or less, meeting National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, compared to 43...GL701 (prasterone) significantly reduces lupus flares
...stically significant decreases in trigylceride and cholesterol levels observed in the group of patients receiving GL701. Significantly fewer GL701 patients than placebo patients (11.5 percent GL701 vs 30.5 percent placebo) developed serious adverse events. In most cases, these adverse events were consisten...Heart attack help: Program helps boost use of key therapies in hospitals
...room; drugs like ACE inhibitors, beta blockers and cholesterol fighters; tests and procedures like angiography; a...perfusion therapy in the ER, measurements of blood cholesterol and the pumping capacity of the heart's left ventricle, catheterization or heart imaging studies in ......rotein to daily diets as a way to help reduce high cholesterol levels. The versatile soybean is used in a wide range of foods and beverages, including tofu, miso, soymilk, soy coffee, butter, veggie burgers, crackers, cookies and flour. The bean's oil also has multiple nonfood uses in products such as caulki...