Sentences with phrase «elevated cholesterol took»

In a 2014 RCT, 50 adults with elevated cholesterol took 30 grams of flaxseed or a placebo for 3 months.

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They help manage weight (because they help curb cravings because they take a lot time to digest), they can help reduce the risk of heart disease, they help to ward off diabetes (helping to reduce both blood sugar and insulin levels and they help to keep cholesterol in check (by lowering LDL (bad cholesterol) and elevating HDL (good cholesterol).

Your doctor may advise you to take a statin if your cholesterol is slightly elevated, but he or she probably will not tell you that out of 35 people taking the drug for four years, only one person will actually benefit from it in terms of avoiding a coronary event or another bad outcome.

I wonder how many people with slightly elevated cholesterol would feel this rather minimal risk reduction to be worth the cost and the potentially bad side effects of taking this type of drug for the rest of their lives.

Taking into account such heart risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol diminished the association between dairy fats and heart attacks, also known as myocardial infarctions.

my doctor said I should take it for elevated cholesterol of 209 Triglycerides 136 and HDL 43 non HDL Chol 166 and LDL CALC 139..

Within 3 weeks of the above changes, and eating smaller, more frequent meals, I no longer had elevated blood sugar and my cholesterol, though not as low as I would like, dropped more than it ever did taking statins, which I stopped because of the side effects.

Last year at my annual physical, my cholesterol was elevated and my physician wanted me to consider taking a cholesterol lowering medication, which I declined.

Alternatives: If you're among the many millions of older Americans without known coronary disease who are taking these drugs, ask your doctor or other health care provider about treating your slightly elevated cholesterol with a combination of sublingual (under - the - tongue) vitamin B12 (1,000 mcg daily), folic acid (800 mcg daily) and vitamin B6 (200 mg daily).

You see, the last thing you want to do is take an exam only to find out you have elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, or diabetes.

If you are taking a cholesterol lowering medication or your doctor says you have elevated cholesterol, don't worry... you may likely still qualify for the best life insurance rate class in 2018.

If you are slightly overweight, have elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, or take medication for any health issue we can say with almost certainty that you will not be given a top rating after underwriting review.