Hdl Cholesterol

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- Lowering cholesterol reduces heart attack and stroke risk - 4
- Red yeast rice reduce cholesterol in statin intolerant - 3.7
- Mid life cholesterol levels not linked to Alzheimer's disease - 3.6
- Nonstick cookware may elevate cholesterol in children and teens - 3.4
- Combined with exercise, cholesterol increase muscles - 3.2
- Vytorin does not appear to be unsafe - American Heart Association - 3
- High triglyceride levels linked to greater stroke risk - 2.9
- Eating nuts improve blood cholesterol levels - 2.8
- 95 genetic variants linked to cholesterol, triglycerides - 2.8
- Oxycholesterol cholesterol may pose greatest heart disease risk - 2.8

Hdl Cholesterol articles

Safety changes in labeling for cholesterol lowering drugs statins
Important safety changes to the labeling for some widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are being announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These products, when used with diet and exercise, help to lower a person's "bad cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol).

Evacetrapib can increase good cholesterol HDL
Researchers at Cleveland Clinic reported that administration of a new drug– evacetrapib – can dramatically increase HDL (good) cholesterol, while significantly lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol). At the highest tested dosage, the levels of HDL more than doubled.

Niacin and statin treatment did not protect heart
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health has stopped a clinical trial studying a blood lipid treatment 18 months earlier than planned.

More good cholesterol is not always good for health
We've all heard about the importance of raising HDL, or the so-called "good" cholesterol, and lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, to improve heart health. While we've come to assume HDL cholesterol is an inherently good thing, a new study shows that for a certain group of patients, this is not always the case.

Oxycholesterol cholesterol may pose greatest heart disease risk
Health-conscious people know that high levels of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) can increase the risk of heart attacks.

Orexigen's Contrave trials successful for obesity treatment
Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: OREX) announced that all three remaining Phase 3 trials evaluating Contrave(R) (bupropion SR/naltrexone SR), its investigational drug for the treatment of obesity, met their co-primary endpoints.

BioIQ discounted cholesterol test kits for women to detect heart disease risk
One in four women in the United States dies of heart disease. Although significant progress has been made in increasing awareness among women, most people fail to make the connection between risk factors and their personal risk for developing heart disease.

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