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Promoting Cardiovascular Health in Early Childhood and Transitions in Childhood through Adolescence: A Workshop Report
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in developed countries around the world.1 Although the mortality rate from CVD has declined since the middle of the last...
18 minutes ago - The Journal of Pediatrics
Drug Used to Reduce Cholesterol Found Useful for Cachexia
Treatment with atorvastatin, the drug used to reduce cholesterol, could reduce adipose tissue remodeling, leading to rapid weight loss and muscle atrophy.
22 minutes ago - Medindia Health
Cholesterol-lowering Drug Bempedoic Acid Reduces LDL Cholesterol in High-risk Patients
LDL cholesterol levels in patients at high risk for a heart attack or stroke who received the investigational drug bempedoic acid, were reduced by 17.4 percent after 12 weeks...
6 hours ago - Medindia Health
Cholesterol lowering drug can also help treat cancer-associated cachexia
Brazilian researchers have discovered that a drug regularly prescribed to control cholesterol can also be used to treat cachexia, or wasting syndrome, a condition characterized...
17 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Parathyroidectomy may decrease short-term CV risk markers in primary hyperparathyroidism
Patients with mild to moderate hyperparathyroidism who underwent parathyroidectomy experienced a decrease in total cholesterol and reduced pulse wave velocity vs. controls who...
22 hours ago - Healio - 2 articles
The Great Statin Debate - Why Cholesterol Is Misunderstood
The health editor for the Daily Mail recently published an article touting the merits of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs and, worse, eschewing the "deadly propaganda of the...
1 day ago - Mercola
A new option for reducing LDL cholesterol in patients at high risk for heart attack, stroke
Patients at high risk for a heart attack or stroke who took an investigational drug in addition to a statin had significantly lower LDL, or "bad" cholesterol, after 12 weeks...
1 day ago - News Medical - 7 articles
New Study Ties Egg and Cholesterol Consumption to Heart Disease Risk
After a raft of studies reassuring consumers that eggs are OK to eat, a new report associates an increasing risk of heart disease with the increasing consumption of...
1 day ago - Medscape - 5 articles
Bempedoic acid shows promise for LDL lowering in high-risk patients
NEW ORLEANS - Treatment with bempedoic acid, an investigational oral, once-daily therapy that is designed to work in the liver to inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis, resulted in...
1 day ago - Healio
Personal Health: When the Benefits of Statins Outweigh the Risks
Knowing the odds of side effects and making sure to get periodic checkups that would pick up an adverse reaction, I chose to focus on the drugs' potential benefits.
2 days ago - NY Times
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