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Researchers find 5-fold increase in high cholesterol risk

What leads to high cholesterol? Your genes and lifestyle factors may not explain it all. A study presented today at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress has connected some of the risk for high cholesterol in adults to their mother's cholesterol levels before she even became pregnant.

17 Oct 2013

Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals provide recommended guideline-based care for patients

Award-winning Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals are more likely than Primary Stroke Center certified hospitals to provide all the recommended guideline-based care for patients, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

16 Oct 2013

Baylor provides AED demonstrations on how to save people who experience sudden cardiac arrest

Exiting an elevator, a man crumples to the floor just outside the elevator. You, an innocent bystander, freeze. Then, you see the glass case on the wall with the heart and lightening decal. Whether or not you reach for that case and open it is a life or death decision for the stranger lying at the elevator doors.

15 Oct 2013

Liposorber LA-15 System to treat pediatric patients with primary FSGS gets FDA approval

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Liposorber LA-15 System to treat pediatric patients with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis either before transplant, or after renal (kidney) transplantation in which there is recurrence of FSGS.

11 Oct 2013

Cholesterol-lowering drugs could be alternative treatment for people who take statins

A new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that target a recently discovered regulator of harmful cholesterol could be an alternative or complementary treatment for the 30 million people who take statins, after the first trial in humans confirms the technique’s feasibility and safety.

4 Oct 2013

Researchers reveals key role for stem cells that promote inflammation in atherosclerosis

University at Buffalo translational researchers are developing a richer understanding of atherosclerosis in humans, revealing a key role for stem cells that promote inflammation.

24 Sep 2013

Expert offers tips to help college students avoid serious health conditions down the road

To attract customers, restaurant chains have been rolling out budget deals, offering $5 pizzas, $3 meals — even $1 sandwiches. But while these new offerings are light on its customers' wallets, they hit them where it hurts in terms of calories, fat, and sodium content.

17 Sep 2013

Study shows anorexia linked to how cholesterol processes

The largest DNA-sequencing study of anorexia nervosa has linked the eating disorder to variants in a gene coding for an enzyme that regulates cholesterol metabolism. The finding suggests that anorexia could be caused in part by a disruption in the normal processing of cholesterol, which may disrupt mood and eating behavior.

12 Sep 2013

Hormonal disorder causes irregular periods among teenage girls

While irregular periods are common among teenage girls, an underlying hormonal disorder may be to blame if this problem persists.

12 Sep 2013

Women veterans at risk for heart disease recruited for mindfulness-based stress reduction study

Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing researchers and Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital are recruiting women veterans at risk for heart disease for a mindfulness-based stress reduction study. MBSR is a form of complementary medicine that combines yoga and meditation.

10 Sep 2013

Most patients who report statin intolerance can actually tolerate drugs on subsequent trials

Most patients who report statin intolerance, including muscle aches and other side effects from the cholesterol-lowering drugs, can actually tolerate drugs from this class on subsequent trials, according to research from Cleveland Clinic recently released online and forthcoming in the September issue of the American Heart Journal. The study is the largest ever to examine the effects of re-challenging statin-intolerant patients.

10 Sep 2013

Doctor’s recommendations for parents to prevent child’s healthy heart from obesity

Childhood obesity is a national health care crisis. More than one-third of children and teens are overweight or obese. Plus, obese children are more likely to become obese adults.

5 Sep 2013

Golgi apparatus: New target for treatment of acute cerebral infarction

Expression of soluble CD40L has been shown to increase sig-nificantly in conditions such as stroke, myocardial infarction, unstable angina, high cholesterol, or other cardiovascular events. 95% of the circulating CD40L exists in activated platelets.

5 Sep 2013

Underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce risk of death

Being underweight increases the death risk of women with coronary artery disease (CAD) by 2-fold, according to research presented at the ESC Congress today by Dr Aziza Azimi from Denmark. The study suggests that underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce their risk of death.

5 Sep 2013

Esperion Therapeutics reports positive results from ETC-1002 Phase 2a study for LDL-C treatment

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced positive top-line results from a Phase 2a study of ETC-1002 when added to statin therapy in patients with elevated levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C or "bad cholesterol").

4 Sep 2013

High Cholesterol News and Research

Researchers find 5-fold increase in high cholesterol risk

Get With The Guidelines--Stroke hospitals provide recommended guideline-based care for patients

Baylor provides AED demonstrations on how to save people who experience sudden cardiac arrest

Liposorber LA-15 System to treat pediatric patients with primary FSGS gets FDA approval

Cholesterol-lowering drugs could be alternative treatment for people who take statins

Researchers reveals key role for stem cells that promote inflammation in atherosclerosis

Expert offers tips to help college students avoid serious health conditions down the road

Study shows anorexia linked to how cholesterol processes

Hormonal disorder causes irregular periods among teenage girls

Women veterans at risk for heart disease recruited for mindfulness-based stress reduction study

Most patients who report statin intolerance can actually tolerate drugs on subsequent trials

Doctor’s recommendations for parents to prevent child’s healthy heart from obesity

Golgi apparatus: New target for treatment of acute cerebral infarction

Underweight women with CAD should gain weight to reduce risk of death

Esperion Therapeutics reports positive results from ETC-1002 Phase 2a study for LDL-C treatment

Life expectancy gap growing between older women in rich and poor countries: Study

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Noninvasive measure of oxygen levels in leg muscles improves outcomes in peripheral arterial disease patients

Physical-activity adviser motivates old Latino adults to participate in exercise program

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