You are here : health.am > High Blood Cholesterol Center > High Blood cholesterol news High Blood cholesterol news Diet changes improve older adults’ cholesterol too • High Blood cholesterol news • Feb 19 10 Older adults can cut their cholesterol levels by revamping their dietary fat intake, even if they are already on cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study finds. Conventional wisdom holds that people… Diet changes improve older adults’ cholesterol too • High Blood cholesterol news • Feb 01 10 Older adults can cut their cholesterol levels by revamping their dietary fat intake - even if they are already on cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study finds. Conventional wisdom holds… Supplement may offer a statin alternative for some • High Blood cholesterol news • Dec 25 09 Red yeast rice supplements may offer a cholesterol-lowering alternative to people who’ve suffered muscle pain as a side effect of statins, a small study suggests. Researchers found that among… Selenium supplementation may boost cholesterol • High Blood cholesterol news • Nov 24 09 Taking too much selenium, an essential mineral touted for immune boosting and anti-cancer benefits, could increase cholesterol levels by 10 percent and, as a result, raise the risk of heart disease, a… Low cholesterol may be sign of undiagnosed cancer • High Blood cholesterol news • Nov 03 09 Low total cholesterol may be a sign of cancer rather than a cause, as some researchers have suggested, and men who have low cholesterol actually have a lower risk… Cholesterol necessary for brain development • High Blood cholesterol news • Oct 02 09 A derivative of cholesterol is necessary for the formation of brain cells, according to a study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The results, which are published in the journal Cell… Scientists identify cholesterol-regulating genes • High Blood cholesterol news • Jul 07 09 Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, have come a step closer to understanding how cholesterol levels are regulated. In a study published today in the… More patients across the world lowering ‘bad’ cholesterol • High Blood cholesterol news • Jun 23 09 Study Highlights: * More people in the past decade have lowered their level of “bad” LDL cholesterol to acceptable ranges. * In the United States,… PDAs, More Education Help Doctors Follow Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines • High Blood cholesterol news • Apr 23 09 A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that patients with high cholesterol receive better care when physicians use a variety of tools… Statins cut stroke risk by one fifth, study finds • High Blood cholesterol news • Apr 15 09 Cholesterol-lowering drugs cut the risk of strokes by about a fifth, according to a pooled analysis of 24 past clinical studies involving 165,000 people. The hugely successful… Evidence weak on new cholesterol tests: U.S. study • High Blood cholesterol news • Apr 08 09 New tests that measure individual particles of LDL - so-called bad cholesterol - may one day help doctors predict which patients will develop heart problems, but not quite yet,… Statins cut strokes even with normal cholesterol • High Blood cholesterol news • Feb 23 09 Statins, such as Lipitor and Mevacor, are very popular drugs for lowering high cholesterol levels. Now, new research suggests that they can help prevent strokes even in patients who do… Few U.S. teens need cholesterol-lowering drugs • High Blood cholesterol news • Feb 19 09 Fewer than 1 percent of adolescents in the U.S. are candidates for cholesterol-lowering drugs, based on updated guidelines released last year by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The guidelines indicate that… Researchers make synthetic HDL cholesterol: study • High Blood cholesterol news • Jan 14 09 U.S. researchers have developed a synthetic form of good cholesterol known as HDL they hope will be able to keep levels of bad cholesterol in check. The compound, which has a… Synthetic HDL: A new weapon to fight cholesterol problems • High Blood cholesterol news • Jan 09 09 Buttery Christmas cookies, eggnog, juicy beef roast, rich gravy and creamy New York-style cheesecake. Happy holiday food unfortunately can send blood cholesterol levels sky high. Northwestern University scientists… Aggressive cholesterol lowering has benefits: study • High Blood cholesterol news • Dec 15 08 In people with type 2 diabetes, intensive drug therapy to significantly lower “bad” LDL cholesterol reduces the thickness of the carotid arteries, the major arteries in the neck that supply… Study associates 11 new gene sites with cholesterol, triglyceride levels • High Blood cholesterol news • Dec 08 08 An international research team has identified 11 novel locations in the human genome where common variations appear to influence cholesterol or triglyceride levels, bringing the total number… Researchers learn that some ‘good cholesterol’ isn’t good enough • High Blood cholesterol news • Dec 01 08 If you think your levels of “good cholesterol” are good enough, a new study published in the December 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal suggests that you may… Cholesterol in the News: Answers and More Questions • High Blood cholesterol news • Sep 03 08 Understanding cholesterol is more than figuring out what’s good and bad. Although much is known about this waxy substance that’s in all body cells and its relationship with heart… High Cholesterol Levels Drop Naturally in Children on High-Fat Antiseizure Diet • High Blood cholesterol news • Aug 27 08 Elevated cholesterol levels return to normal or near normal levels over time in four out of 10 children with uncontrollable epilepsy treated with the high-fat ketogenic… Lowering Cholesterol Early in Life Could Save Lives • High Blood cholesterol news • Aug 05 08 With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is… Red yeast rice, fish oil fight high cholesterol • High Blood cholesterol news • Jul 17 08 A regimen of supplements and lifestyle coaching is just as effective as statin medication for reducing levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol, and more effective in helping… Fish oil and red yeast rice studied for lowering blood cholesterol • High Blood cholesterol news • Jul 08 08 A great deal of scientific evidence shows that cholesterol-reducing medications known as statins can help prevent coronary artery disease. Although the safety of these medications… Gene Variants Linked to Metabolic Syndrome and HDL Cholesterol Levels • High Blood cholesterol news • Jun 18 08 Nutrition researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified five common genetic variations that increase the risk of metabolic syndrome, a group of… Genetically-Caused Low HDL Cholesterol Not Linked With Higher Risk of Heart Disease • High Blood cholesterol news • Jun 03 08 Lower levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol due to a gene mutation is not associated with an increased risk of ischemic heart disease, according to… Page 3 of 7 pages < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last » << Back to main