The medicine worked incredibly well, lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol, by 70%.
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Most of the time low-density lipoprotein (LDL), better known as "bad cholesterol, " sits around doing little.
The combo also lowered the low-density, or "bad, " cholesterol 17% more than Lipitor alone.
As a result of its strict architectural rules, Palmetto Bluff is a sprawling, low-density, master-planned community.
Many of the safari camps in ever-popular South Africa and Botswana are low-density properties that fill up quickly.
"I'm confused, " he says, because reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or bad cholesterol, is such a cornerstone of cardiology.
The addition of Kynamro helps to reduce low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), apolipoprotein B, total cholesterol, and non-high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (non HDL-C).
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Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or bad cholesterol levels should be below 100, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) should measure 35 or above.
The decision to lift the restrictions followed safety tests that showed the engines could cope in areas of low-density ash.
Up until now, evidence for statins has been mainly in people with high "bad" cholesterol, properly known as low-density lipoprotein (LDL).
Low-density lipoprotein, the bad cholesterol, carries cholesterol fat to the arteries, where it gets stored as plaque in the artery wall.
There are plenty of areas of San Francisco that are relatively low-density, but it is ridiculously hard to develop or redevelop anything.
"We have been lucky, " says Antiparos mayor Yiannis Leventakis, chatting through an interpreter about the island's auspicious geography and Tsakonas's low-density concept.
Big studies have shown that low HDL levels may be as important as high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in causing heart attacks.
Niman's cattle graze on high grass for at least 14 months and then spend 5 months at low-density (83 cattle per acre) feedlots.
Indeed, smaller, low-density Des Moines nearly broke into the top 10 (13th), reflective of the economic gains being made in the Great Plains.
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These studies had led to new cholesterol guidelines in the U.S. that suggested lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or bad cholesterol, to extemely low levels.
Vytorin lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL) more than any other single pill.
Vytorin lowers low-density liproprotein (LDL) more than any other single pill.
But when Zetia was combined with a statin like Lipitor or Zocor, it lowered bad cholesterol, or low-density lipoprotein (LDL), more than anything else out there.
They know that heart disease, for example, tends to occur in patients with an overabundance of any of these things: low-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, C-reactive protein or homocysteine.
Coronary artery disease begins when excess cholesterol particles, called low-density lipoprotein particles, become lodged in the artery wall over time and get chemically damaged, or oxidized (close-up diagram).
Both work by inhibiting an obscure molecule called the cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) that works indirectly to prevent HDL from being used to create low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol.
The result is scattered, low-density development that keeps affordable housing out, increases the cost of infrastructure, separates inner-city residents from new jobs in the suburbs, and makes public transport less efficient.
It's also about packing your recipes with low-density ingredients.
Statins help lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or "bad" cholesterol.
For patients at the highest risk of heart attack, the new guidelines suggest that "bad cholesterol, " or low-density lipoprotein (LDL), be reduced to 70 mg per deciliter--although the new guideline is optional.
Schering and Merck have defended the drugs by pointing to the mountains of evidence that support the idea that lowering low-density lipoprotein, commonly known as LDL or "bad cholesterol, " prevents heart attacks.
Oxman estimates that making concrete columns this way with low-density porous concrete in the center could reduce the amount of concrete needed by more than 10 percent, a significant savings on the scale of a construction project.
Zetia (generically known as ezetimibe) lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the bad cholesterol involved in causing heart attacks and strokes, but less so than existing drugs like Lipitor (generically known as atorvastatin), Crestor, from AstraZeneca, or simvastatin.
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