They showed how high cholesterol levels could affect the immune system and lead to macular degeneration.
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People were also eating far too much saturated fat, which can lead to high cholesterol levels, and consequently heart disease.
About 20 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, and they often have high cholesterol levels as well.
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In addition, a drug currently used to treat high cholesterol levels could be able to deal with the toxin which causes ciguatera.
High cholesterol levels increase risk of heart attack and other vascular diseases.
But heart attacks can strike even those without traditional risk factors such as high cholesterol levels, suggesting that high viscosity is a possible cause.
Later, this lower-is-better paradigm could trickle down to the far broader swath of healthy Americans at risk of heart disease because of high cholesterol levels.
In patients who had high cholesterol levels despite taking 20 milligrams or more a day of Lipitor, from Pfizer, or Zocor, from Merck, 301012 cut LDL levels in half.
In patients who had high cholesterol levels despite taking 20 milligrams or more a day of Lipitor, from Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), or Zocor, from Merck, 301012 cut LDL levels in half.
Last night, the Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of Kynamro, a new drug to lower cholesterol in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), a rare genetic disease that causes sky-high cholesterol levels and heart attacks at a young age.
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The five test men and 13 postmenopausal women, who were an average of 60 years old, all had high serum cholesterol levels.
People with high levels of good cholesterol appear to be somewhat protected against heart disease, even if their bad cholesterol levels are high.
Researchers looked at six groups of eight-week-old mice with high levels of cholesterol over 18 weeks.
Today, only people with high levels of cholesterol are prescribed statins.
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The large doses of fructose from both sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup may be particularly detrimental to your health as they can cause the accumulation of metabolically toxic belly fat, cholesterol abnormalities -- including high triglycerides and reduced levels of HDL (good cholesterol) -- and nonalcoholic associated fatty liver disease.
Dr Iacopino said high cholesterol, or lipid, levels, rather than the way the body deals with glucose, was the risk factor for people who are already diabetic developing periodontal disease.
To reach this goal Harvard's Ridker is leading a 15, 000-patient trial testing whether AstraZeneca's statin drug, Crestor, can prevent heart attacks in patients with normal cholesterol levels but high C-reactive protein levels.
Generally, the focus of attention in such tests is LDL, or bad cholesterol, which at high levels has long been associated with increased chances of heart attacks and strokes.
The study's statistician, Harvard University's Robert Glynn, estimates that about 250, 000 heart attacks, strokes, hospitalizations and cardiac deaths could be prevented over five years if people with good cholesterol and high hs-CRP levels were taking statins.
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He said the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes had high levels of resveratrol - which increases levels of "good" cholesterol and slows production of "bad" cholesterol.
The experiment was designed to test whether people who had normal levels of bad cholesterol but high CRP could be helped by statin therapy.
Grapeseed, canola and olive oils all "have high concentrations of unsaturated fat that help promote beneficial cholesterol levels, " she says.
In one study of 1, 740 men with high cholesterol, Scottish researchers found that men with high levels of the Lp-PLA2 enzyme had twice the risk of heart attacks, an effect that was statistically independent of their cholesterol levels.
Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or bad cholesterol levels should be below 100, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) should measure 35 or above.
If the FDA adopts the panel's recommendation -- the agency isn't required to do so, but typically does in such cases -- it would mark the first time that a statin was approved for heart-disease-free people with healthy cholesterol levels but other risk factors, including high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation.
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Patients with high cholesterol had, on average, a fifty-point drop in their levels.
Levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol, can be as high as six times normal, and patients can have heart attacks in their teens or twenties.
The diet is high in animal protein, which could lead to an excess intake of saturated fat, resulting in elevated cholesterol levels, an increased risk of heart disease and increased risk of certain types of cancer.
But a more recent study of 12, 000 American men and women found that high Lp-PLA2 levels were an independent heart-disease risk factor mainly in those patients with relatively low cholesterol levels.
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