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Cholesterol Levels May Vary By Season View the Cholesterol Levels Slideshow Pictures THURSDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) — Cholesterol levels increase with winter’s arrival and drop again as warmer weather returns, a new study by Brazilian researchers suggests. “In the winter, people should be careful with their cholesterol levels,” said lead researcher Dr. Filipe Moura, [...]
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Cholesterol Levels May Vary By Season Brazilian study doesn’t necessarily mean that heart attack or stroke risk rises in winter By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) — Cholesterol levels increase with winter’s arrival and drop again as warmer weather returns, a new study by Brazilian researchers suggests. “In the winter, people [...]
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Conclusion: Eat both Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Health & Prevention Two Sources of Omega-3 Benefit the Heart – In Different Ways In a small study supported by the California Walnut Commission, diets containing walnuts or fish both derived cardiovascular benefit – although each diet had a different effect on lipid parameters. Twenty-five adults with [...]
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from the article “Levels of non-fasting triglycerides should be included in stroke prevention guidelines which currently focus on total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels”. High Triglycerides Tied To Stroke Risk 23 Feb 2011 Medical News Today Higher levels of non-fasting triglycerides are linked to an increased risk of ischemic stroke in men and women, while [...]
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40-Point Cholesterol Drop=20% Lower Heart Risk Heart Disease Protection Tied to Cholesterol Reduction Achieved With Drugs WebMD Health News Sept. 27, 2005 — The heart disease protection offered by popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may be directly related to the degree they actually lower a person’s cholesterol levels. A new review of studies on statins shows [...]
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From Dusty Punch Cards, New Insights Into Link Between Cholesterol and Heart Disease ScienceDaily January 10, 2011 – A stack of punch cards from a landmark study published in 1966, and the legwork to track down the study’s participants years later, has yielded the longest analysis of the effects of lipoproteins on coronary heart disease. [...]
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New Gene Variants Linked to Lipid Levels By Michael Smith, August 04, 2010 In a genetic analysis of more than 100,000 people of European ancestry, researchers have found 95 common genetic variants — 59 of them previously unknown — that influence lipid levels by regulating nearby genes. Some of the variants are clustered near genes [...]
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TUESDAY, March 30 (HealthDay News) — Chinese red yeast rice, a dietary supplement made by fermenting the yeast Monascus purpureus over rice, modestly lowers cholesterol in patients intolerant to statins, according to research published in the March 1 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. Carmelo V. Venero, M.D., from the University of Tennessee Medical [...]
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Calgary, AB – Flavonoid-rich cranberry juice may help increase high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, according to the findings of a study presented here at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2004. Lead author Guillaume Ruel (Université Laval, Quebec City, QC) and colleagues observed a 7.6% increase in HDL cholesterol with daily cranberry-juice consumption. Ruel points out that this [...]
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