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Doctors fail to cut cholesterol enough (Reuters)

Categorie : Cholesterol
Reuters - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice, scientists said on Thursday. ...

read more Reuters - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice, scientists said on Thursday. read more Sun Mar 2010

Teamwork Unlikely to Improve Cholesterol Levels (HealthDay)

Categorie : Cholesterol
HealthDay - MONDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with high cholesterol, joint physician-pharmacist care to help them manage their lipid levels doesn't have a significant impact, a new study finds. ...

read more HealthDay - MONDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with high
cholesterol, joint physician-pharmacist care to help them manage their
lipid levels doesn't have a significant impact, a new study finds. read more Sun Mar 2010

Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2 Diabetics (HealthDay)

Categorie : Cholesterol
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a large U.S. government-sponsored trial find that neither aggressive treatment of cholesterol nor of blood pressure lowers the risk of heart events in people with type 2 diabetes. ...

read more HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Two sets of results from a
large U.S. government-sponsored trial find that neither aggressive
treatment of cholesterol nor of blood pressure lowers the risk of heart
events in people with type 2 diabetes. read more Sun Mar 2010

No heart benefit seen with fibrates in diabetics (Reuters)

Categorie : Cholesterol
Reuters - Adding a triglyceride-lowering drug to cholesterol-fighting statins provided no additional protection from heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to data from a large study. ...

read more Reuters - Adding a triglyceride-lowering drug to cholesterol-fighting statins provided no additional protection from heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to data from a large study. read more Sun Mar 2010

Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome (HealthDay)

Categorie : Cholesterol
HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Two separate scientific teams announced this week that they had successfully sequenced individual genomes to pinpoint precise genetic causes of illness -- breakthroughs that open the door to a future of individualized, genomics-based medicine. ...

read more HealthDay - THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Two separate scientific
teams announced this week that they had successfully sequenced individual
genomes to pinpoint precise genetic causes of illness -- breakthroughs
that open the door to a future of individualized, genomics-based
medicine. read more Sun Mar 2010

Alternative to Statins Shows Promise (HealthDay)

Categorie : Cholesterol
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- A thyroid-derived cholesterol-lowering drug that could be an alternative to the widely used statin medications has done well in a small, early trial, Swedish and American researchers report. ...

read more HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- A thyroid-derived
cholesterol-lowering drug that could be an alternative to the widely used
statin medications has done well in a small, early trial, Swedish and
American researchers report. read more Sun Mar 2010

Common treatments fail to lower diabetic heart risk: study (AFP)

Categorie : Cholesterol
AFP - Diabetics who seek to aggressively lower their blood pressure and cholesterol are not reducing their risk of a heart attack and could suffer negative side effects, a study released Sunday said. ...

read more AFP - Diabetics who seek to aggressively lower their blood pressure and cholesterol are not reducing their risk of a heart attack and could suffer negative side effects, a study released Sunday said. read more Sun Mar 2010

Hope for Inherited, Dangerously High Cholesterol (HealthDay)

Categorie : Cholesterol
HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called mipomersen reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) "bad" cholesterol by nearly 25 percent when added to current therapy in people with a rare genetic condition that causes extremely high cholesterol, a new study finds. ...

read more HealthDay - SUNDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called mipomersen
reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) read more Sun Mar 2010

Health Care Partnership Examined In Canadian Medical Association Journal

Categorie : Cholesterol
A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients... ...

read more A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients... read more Sun Mar 2010

Obesity As Protection Against Metabolic Syndrome, Not Its Cause

Categorie : Cholesterol
The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinol ...

read more The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinol read more Sun Mar 2010

New Drug Reduces Bad Cholesterol And Triglycerides Without Statin Side Effects

Categorie : Cholesterol
A new drug, eprotirome, has been shown to significantly lower bad cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people. Results of a study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Our study has shown a dramatic reduction in the dangerous f ...

read more A new drug, eprotirome, has been shown to significantly lower bad cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people. Results of a study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. read more Sun Mar 2010

Experimental Drug That Mimics Thyroid Hormone Safely Lowers 'Bad' Cholesterol In Statin-Treated Patients

Categorie : Cholesterol
People whose "bad" cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar... ...

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Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: High Cholesterol, Diabetes Lead Drug Spending For The Elderly

Categorie : Cholesterol
Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 - about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers... ...

read more Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 - about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers... read more Sun Mar 2010

New Drug Candidate Reduces Blood Lipids

Categorie : Cholesterol
A thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. This according to a clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, amongst other centres, published in the top-ranking sci ...

read more A thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. This according to a clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, amongst other centres, published in the top-ranking sci read more Sun Mar 2010

The New England Journal Of Medicine Publishes Clinical Results On Karo Bio's

Categorie : Cholesterol
The Swedish biotech company Karo Bio (Reuters: KARO.ST) announced the publication of results from a clinical phase II trial evaluating the company's liver selective thyroid hormone receptor agonist eprotirome and its ability to further reduce serum LDL cholesterol levels in statin-treated patients.. ...

read more The Swedish biotech company Karo Bio (Reuters: KARO.ST) announced the publication of results from a clinical phase II trial evaluating the company's liver selective thyroid hormone receptor agonist eprotirome and its ability to further reduce serum LDL cholesterol levels in statin-treated patients.. read more Sun Mar 2010

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