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Cholesterol Screening Rates Low Among Young Adults |
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Less than half of young adults don't get cholesterol screening even though up to a quarter of them have elevated cholesterol.
No Firm Conclusions About HDL Cholesterol Can Be Drawn From JUPITER Sub-Analysis
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is concerned that interpretations of a paper about cholesterol, published in the Lancet (1), could act to deter ongoing research efforts into developing new therapeutic strategies to increase high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Caution, the ESC experts advise, should be displayed in the interpretation of the results.In the Lancet study, Paul ...
Preventing heart problems while keeping a cool head: Cause of flushing effect arising from cholesterol treatment with ...
Cholesterol influences the health of our hearts and blood vessels. Conventional treatment attempts to reduce the level of "bad" cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, in the blood plasma. The opposite approach, which involves increasing the concentration of "good" HDL cholesterol using nicotinic acid, has proven unpopular among patients up to now. The reason for this is that treatment with nicotinic acid ...
Fact Finder: VAP Cholesterol Test
The technology that takes cholesterol testing to the next level was born at UAB.
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