Archive for the ‘Cholesterol’ Category
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trans fats are a cholesterol double whammy. Also known as trans fatty acids, trans fats raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL or "good") cholesterol.Experts consider trans fat the worst type of dietary fat. Trans fat contributes to heart disease by promoting low-grade inflammation in ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
A daily dose of caffeine blocks the disruptive effects of high cholesterol that scientists have linked to Alzheimer's disease. A study in the open access publication, Journal of Neuroinflammation revealed that caffeine equivalent to just one cup of coffee a day could protect the blood-brain barrier (BBB) from damage that ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the CEOs of Merck and Schering-Plough that requested additional information about their decision to wait for more than one year to release the results of a study on the cholesterol medication Vytorin, marketed by a joint ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced yesterday, Monday 31st March, it was stopping the JUPITER clinical trial on its cholesterol-busting drug Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) because early findings showed that the drug reduced deaths and risk of heart problems in patients compared to placebo.A press statement on the company's website said that the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
People with diabetes have the same high risk for heart attack or stroke or cardiovascular death as people who've already had a heart attack, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association."The increased risk was observed in people at all ages with either type 1 or type 2 ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
A study published in JAMA reports that the drugpioglitazone is more effective at reducing the rate of plaque build-upin the coronary arteries than the drug glimepiride. Both medicationsare designed to treat type 2 diabetes (also known as adult-onsetdiabetes).For patients with diabetes, atherosclerosis - the process in whichplaque sticks to the ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Results of ENHANCE (Ezetimibe aNd simvastatin in Hypercholesterolemia enhANces atherosClerosis rEgression), an imaging trial in 720 patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a rare genetic condition that causes very high levels of LDL "bad" cholesterol and greatly increases the risk for premature coronary artery disease, were presented at the 57th ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Karo Bio initiates the second clinical phase IIb dose ranging study with eprotirome. This study will be conducted in dyslipidemia patients receiving concomitant treatment with the cholesterol absorption inhibitor ezetimibe. The first phase IIb study in 180 patients where eprotirome is given in addition to statin treatment is progressing according ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
A burst of unfavorable or confusing publicity often prompts users of prescription medications to take swift actions that can hurt those medications' brand perception and market share, according to researchers at Phoenix Healthcare, a Phoenix Marketing International practice. A recently released Phoenix study titled "Impact of Publicity on Consumer Perceptions ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Daily consumption of chocolate bars made with a patented combination of plant sterols and cocoa flavanols may affect cardiovascular risk by lowering elevated cholesterol levels and improving blood pressure, according to a new study published in the Journal of Nutrition.A study conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The VAP cholesterol test from Atherotech is helping physicians pinpoint the most effective cholesterol and heart disease risk lowering treatments in Type II diabetes patients, providing valuable and potentially lifesaving information to diabetics and the doctors who treat them. Leveraging the expanded cholesterol profiling capabilities of ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
A study appearing in this week's New England Journal of Medicine confirms that a combination of gene variants previously associated with cholesterol levels does reflect patients' cholesterol levels and can signify increased risk of heart attack, stroke or sudden cardiac death. Led by researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiology ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
A new study published in the Journal of the American MedicalAssociation reports that there is an association between thegene for the HDL-associated protein paraoxonase 1 (PON1) and adversecardiac events such as coronary artery disease.Researcher Stanley L. Hazen, M.D., Ph.D (Cleveland Clinic) andcolleagues also find that variations in both the PON1 ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Myocardial infarction and stroke cause nearly half of all deaths in the Western World, and atherosclerosis is the main cause of myocardial infarction and stroke. Scientists from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, have shown with mouse models that the accumulation of the plaque that causes myocardial infarction and stroke can ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Worried about your cholesterol? You may want to schedule a few appointments with a registered dietitian, to get some sound advice about how to shape up your eating habits, according to a new national study led by University of Michigan Health System researchers.Not only are you likely to lower your ...
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