Sentences with phrase «ldl do»

LDL do its part as well, actually these molecules do most of the job.

More than half of the people who have high LDL do nothing about it.

As I said my cholesterilol and ldls did not decrease.

In case you didn't preemptively notice that I posted a more thorough description of my experiment and blood work a little bit further down this page: as a result of switching from semi-vegetarian to vegan, my total cholesterol dropped but this drop was due exclusively to a reduction in HDL (my LDL didn't decrease at all).

LDL did increase but HDL soared (over 65).

My LDL did not start to come down until after I started taking Paul's recommended supplements, including consuming 5 oz of beef liver per week.

However, even if your LDL does go up, it will in all likelihood result in the more favorable Pattern A mentioned above.

I'm thinking about adding some coconut oil to my diet to improve HDL, but I'll take it easy just to be sure my LDL doesn't rise too.

The only unwelcome and curious thing was that although my cholesterol got lower as expected, that drop was ENTIRELY a reduction in HDL; my LDL didn't go down at all.

Not exact matches

This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

The products are being studied as treatments for skin cancer, recurrent ovarian cancer and high LDL, or bad cholesterol, that doesn't respond to pills such as Lipitor.

The data showed a reduction in LDL cholesterol levels, but did not reduce the death rate.

Just because both LDL and HDL went up does not mean that coconut oil is protective against heart disease.

High intake of regular - fat cheese compared with reduced - fat cheese does not affect LDL cholesterol or risk markers of the metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial

They have ridden the coattails of the glycemic index without revealing the truth about what high levels of fructose does to the liver and body in relation to LDL's.

Does this mean refined coconut oils are less healthy and lead to raised LDL cholesterol levels?

The LDL levels of rats fed refined coconut oil did not increase over thirty days but stayed about the same, while the LDL levels of the control group, which received NO coconut oil at all, increased.

So have there actually been any studies done comparing the effects of different coconut oils on lipid markers and things like LDL cholesterol?

It does not mean the refined coconut oil was responsible for the elevated LDL cholesterol level — it just means it was unable to lower it like the virgin coconut oil was.

Our studies done with blends of coconut oil with varying amounts of saturated fatty acids indicate that blood LDL levels do not increase exponentially with saturated fatty acid content in oils, he says.

It doesn't increase LDL and helps keep arteries flexible and prevent atherosclerosis

Fiber helps to lower LDL cholesterol (the bad kind), and studies have shown that flaxseeds are beneficial in doing so.

VCO is a stable, saturated fat that does not elevate undesirable (LDL) cholesterol: VCO has no trans fats or cholesterol.

So, yes, long - term daily intake of two grams of stanols can help reduce LDL cholesterol by an average of fifteen percent, but I don't consider stanol / sterol - fortified margarines and milks a necessity in a heart - healthy diet.

While we don't know the long - term effects of unhealthy fats on infant cardiovascular health, we do know that in adults these fats negatively affect heart health by raising LDL (bad cholesterol), lowering HDL (good cholesterol), and increasing signs of inflammation.

«Trans - fatty acids increase LDL cholesterol [our «bad» cholesterol], and they don't have much of an effect on HDL [our «good» cholesterol],» contributing to cardiovascular disease risk, says Alice Lichtenstein, a nutritional biochemist at Tufts University in Boston, who published a review on the topic in Current Atherosclerosis Reports in June 2014.

When fed a diet containing cholesterol, saturated fat, and bile acids for 3 weeks, the transgenic mice, in contrast to normal mice, did not develop a detectable increase in plasma LDL.

«This guideline represents a departure from previous guidelines because it doesn't focus on specific target levels of low - density lipoprotein cholesterol, commonly known as LDL, or «bad cholesterol,» although the definition of optimal LDL cholesterol has not changed.

Just as saturated fats and cholesterol do, trans fats raise people's concentrations of artery - clogging low - density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (SN: 11/10/01, p. 300: Available to subscribers at Trans Fats).

But statins do much more than lower LDL — they affect the function of the lining of our blood vessels and reduce some markers of inflammation, for instance.

Despite lowering low - density lipoprotein (LDL), known as «bad» cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL), or «good» cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol drug evacetrapib was discontinued early after a preliminary analysis showed it did not reduce rates of major adverse cardiovascular events, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

ApoB backers point to recent analyses that found high apoB levels better predicted patients» likelihood of suffering a heart attack or stroke and a genetic study that showed that reducing apoB had a bigger effect on cardiovascular risk than did reducing LDL cholesterol.

The low glycemic index diets did not lower blood pressure or LDL cholesterol, and they did not improve insulin resistance.

The researchers found that at high dietary carbohydrate content, the low - compared with high - glycemic index level decreased insulin sensitivity; increased low - density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol; and did not affect levels of high - density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, or blood pressure.

Cholesterol - induced hepatic inflammation does not underlie the predisposition to insulin resistance in dyslipidemic female LDL receptor knockout mice.

A study from an international research team finds that familial hypercholesterolemia — a genetic condition that causes greatly elevated levels of LDL cholesterol throughout life — accounts for less than 2 percent of severely elevated LDL in the general population but also increases the risk of coronary artery disease significantly more than does elevated LDL alone.

Also, the studies show that when eating major saturated fat that can be found in beef, pork and chicken, your LDL cholesterol (which is the bad one) doesn't go up.

«If you gave physicians a choice between doing a test for cholesterol or CRP,» he says, «Im fairly certain that more than 90 % would take the LDL cholesterol measurement.»

Does this mean there's a definite connection between high LDL or low HDL and Alzheimer's disease risk?

According to a recent editorial in JAMA Cardiology, a disproportionate number of young patients with high LDL cholesterol — 50 % — do not take their prescribed statins.

Even the «dangerous» LDL type doesn't hold up to scrutiny as a culprit for heart disease.

It doesn't increase LDL and helps keep arteries flexible and prevent atherosclerosis

People often say, «I want to get rid of all my LDL cholesterol,» but the fact is, if you did so, you would die.

The 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines lifted the longstanding hard limit on cholesterol, as many researchers now believe the cholesterol you eat doesn't have that much bearing on the amount of artery - clogging LDL cholesterol floating in your bloodstream, and that saturated fat (like fatty meats) and genetic makeup are the real driving force behind dangerously high cholesterol.

It's more likely that the newer cholesterol - lowering drugs do a better job of curbing LDL, writes Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, DPhil, of Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York City.

Now we know that a low - carb, high - fat diet actually improves «good» cholesterol (HDL) and doesn't worsen «bad» cholesterol (LDL).

In a recent analysis of 10 studies examining the impact of eating avocados, blood cholesterol, total cholesterol, LDL - cholesterol (bad cholesterol), and triglycerides fell by 20 to 30 mg / dl on average while HDL (good cholesterol) did not change.

People often say, «I want to get rid of all my bad (LDL) cholesterol,» but the fact is, if you did so, you would die,» the Texas A&M professor adds.

We need to change this idea of LDL always being the evil thing — we all need it, and we need it to do its job.»

For people that don't lose weight, low - carbohydrate diets either have no effect on, or increase, your LDL cholesterol level.