The truth is that total cholesterol has very little to do with living and dying. Studies confirm that between 160 and 260, there is very little difference is mortality. My goal is to find the perfect cholesterol level for each patient as an individual.Your perfect cholesterol level is differen...
Page 1. Beyond Statins, by DRY Page 1 10/29/08 Cholesterol, Statins and the Truth about Cardiovascular Health and Disease By Donald R. Yance Learn to do a full risk assessment of cardiovascular health and set up an effective treatment protocol using herbs and nutrition …...
Reducing consumption of foods containing cholesterol and saturated fat has been found to lower blood cholesterol levels. Cholesterol levels can also be reduced with drugs, most especially with HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (commonly called statins), such as lovastatin (Mevacor) and atorvastatin (Lipitor...
Why Are So Many GPs against Statins? Bill Clinton Had a Quadruple Bypass after He Quit, but Scientists Are Still Divided on the Drugs' Side-Effects; SPECIA... started taking the cholesterol-lowering pills to protect his heart.As Dr Chand explains: 'I was in my late 50s and I'm Asian,...
Statins for Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: The Right Dose However, there is controversy over the correct dose and the utility of the treatment-to-goal (cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein) approach. To answer ... R Spector,SM Snapinn - 《Pharmacology》 被引量: 42发表: 2011年...
Nonstatin cholesterol-lowering agents werealso associated with a reduced risk of having open-angle glaucoma. Additionalinvestigation is warranted as to whether these classes of agents may providean additional therapeutic addition for glaucoma. The use of statins has been associated in some studies with...
PURPOSE. To investigate the effects of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs on trabecular meshwork cellular properties and aqueous humor outflow. METHODS. Primary cell cultures of porcine trabecular meshwork (PTM) and ciliary body (PCB) were treated with either lovastatin or compactin, to determine the ...
Screening tests need to be sufficiently robust as an indicator of risk and thus their evidence base should be clear and uncontested. While there has been a long standing debate about the link between high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease and, in particular, the use of statins as the main...
Heart disease is the primary cause of death – and the most common cause of premature death – in the western world. To reduce their risk, over six million people in the UK take statins, which lower ‘bad cholesterol’ (LDL-C). This is the accepted science. ...
Myths and Truths about Cholesterol MYTH: People with high cholesterol are prone to heart attacks. TRUTH: Young and middle-aged men with cholesterol levels over 350 are only slightly more at risk for heart attacks. Those who have levels below 350 are at no greater risk than those whose cholest...