Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media
focus on cholesterol, c - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.
Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media
focus on cholesterol, C - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.
He is a respected clinician, with
a focus on cholesterol management and peripheral vascular disease, and a distinguished teacher.
Not exact matches
While government science and tech funding is
focused on basic research, corporate R&D mostly aims to bring new, slightly - improved products (like the upgraded iPhone or marginally - better
cholesterol drug) to market.
So PAMF
focuses on the ratio of triglycerides to HDL — the «good»
cholesterol — while plotting ethnically adjusted BMI and waist - size statistics.
They're packed with fiber and vitamin C, and recent research has
focused on polyphenols found in apples, which may serve as antioxidants, blood sugar regulators, and
cholesterol reducers.
And,
focus on the other benefits of this diet (lower
cholesterol, lower blood pressure, etc).
Focus on using fats that do not raise your
cholesterol... olive oil, canola oil, nuts and other unsaturated fats can actually help lower your
cholesterol.
«With our knowledge of this delicate mechanism in yeast we can now
focus on finding new sensors in different organelles and species which monitor and control the production of unsaturated fatty acids and
cholesterol in our body.»
The panel chose to
focus on the use of statins after a detailed review of other
cholesterol - lowering drugs.
In terms of clinical practice, physicians can use risk assessment tools in some cases to determine which patients would most likely benefit from statin therapy, rather than
focusing only
on blood
cholesterol to determine which patients would benefit.
«The new guideline uses the highest quality scientific evidence to
focus treatment of blood
cholesterol on those likely to benefit most,» said Neil J. Stone, MD, Bonow professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new guideline.
«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.
Future research should
focus on if and why
cholesterol may protect against PD.
According to professor Schunkert the significance of triglycerides for human health hitherto has been underestimated: «For most patients the
focus still lies
on cholesterol.
In addition, the survey found that healthcare providers more often
focused on a woman's weight rather than other cardiovascular disease risk factors, compared to men who were more likely to be told their
cholesterol or blood pressure is too high by their doctors.
The review
focused on fat and
cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and downplayed sugar consumption as also a risk factor.
Hedrick, whose laboratory will
focus on the role of
cholesterol and LDL in reprogramming specific subsets of immune cells as part of the Program Project Research grant, has assembled a high - powered, multi-institutional team, including investigators from UC San Diego and the University of Virginia.
Another area
focuses on the HDL particle (carrier of good
cholesterol in the blood).
Dr. Bersot's work
focuses on genetic disorders of
cholesterol metabolism.
To help doctors decide who should take
cholesterol - lowering drugs that cost thousands of dollars a year, the
focus of discussion could fall
on risk models, such as the Framingham score and its successors, or other biomarkers besides various forms of
cholesterol.
Our laboratory
focuses on the structure and function of apolipoprotein (apo) E, including its critical role in
cholesterol homeostasis, atherosclerosis and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury.
It's more important to
focus on modifiable risk factors such as
cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar, he said.
In short, evidence doesn't seem to support
focusing largely
on cholesterol as the culprit in heart disease, and there are a variety of other factors that may be much more important.
Since there is evidence (as mentioned above) that high levels may not be a big factor in the heart disease equation, shouldn't we be more
focused on reducing rates of heart disease itself rather than just lowering
cholesterol levels?
She offers practical advice about how to combat high
cholesterol and other digestive issues with diet and lifestyle changes before considering traditional medicines, as well as times when medicine is necessary first, along with a
focus on digestion and lifestyle changes.
And there's good reason to stay
focused on lowering your
cholesterol: Research suggests that decreasing LDL can ward off heart attacks, strokes, and other health problems.
Most of the time, we
focus on lowering the «bad»
cholesterol and overlook increasing the «good»
cholesterol.
The results of the study suggest that in order to lower metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors which includes a large waistline and high blood pressure, it's more important to
focus on diets which include nutrient - dense, fiber - rich, plant - based foods as opposed to place emphasis
on the restriction of foods high in saturated fat or
cholesterol.
Unfortunately, these diets don't pay much attention to sugar, flour, and other refined carbohydrates, since the primary
focus is
on reducing meat, fat, and
cholesterol, which proponents of these diets believe are the much worse for your health than carbohydrates are.
In 1980, when the first U.S. government dietary guidelines were published, the advice
focused on reducing total fat, saturated fat and dietary
cholesterol for coronary heart disease prevention.
Second place was won by the Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes (TLC) diet, which aims to lower
cholesterol, and third place went to the Mayo Clinic diet, which
focuses on weight loss.
Probably the biggest mistake in modern medicine is
focusing too much
on Total and LDL
cholesterol levels as indicators of heart attack risk.
«The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary
cholesterol and serum (blood)
cholesterol, consistent with the AHA / ACC (American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology) The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will, in response, no longer warn people against eating high -
cholesterol foods and will instead
focus on sugar as the main substance of dietary concern.
Instead,
cholesterol ratio is a much better number to
focus on.
This article
focuses on the «believers» vs the «non-believers» of lowering
cholesterol, factors affecting LDL, the «bad»
cholesterol, the development of
cholesterol lowering drugs and why the urgent «desperate» need to take drugs to lower the «bad»
cholesterol.
My Fast Food Restaurant Nutrition Guide
focuses on calories, total fat and saturated fat, whereas the FDA's criteria for «healthy» also include
cholesterol and sodium.
The antiinflammatory effects of fiber are intriguing, because prior work had
focused on the ability of fiber to reduce other substances that cause inflammation (eg, the inhibition of hyperglycemia and its effects
on lipids, particularly LDL
cholesterol).
In reality,
focusing on reducing saturated fat consumption has little effect
on total
cholesterol levels and has this been validated by many studies.
Fred Kummerow, PhD, was the author of almost four hundred scientific papers in peer review journals, many
focusing on the dangers of trans fatty acids; he also wrote the book
Cholesterol Won't Kill You But Trans Fats Could.
In fact, the diet should be approximately 70 % of calories from unadulturated fats like low carb nuts (pecans and macadamias are great, almonds ok and peanuts and cashews are considered higher carb
on the nut scale), avocado, grass fed butter, coconut oil, olive oil; and the remainng 15/15 for protein and non-starchy vegetable carbs, especially nutrient dense leafy greens It is carbohydrates or high protein leading to gluconeogenesis in the diet that make concurrent consumption of fats a cardiovascular risk, but in a properly carb - restricted and moderate protein diet, and in the absence of systemic inflammation (hsCRP, ESR), one should not worry about increases in
cholesterol, but
focus on the size of the
cholesterol particles (bigger is better) Dr. Peter Attia explains this complex topic well.
More studies
focused on blood lipid levels to see the effect of different fats
on cholesterol and triglycerides.
Because VLDL, LDL, and HDL
cholesterol are frequently used as clinical indicators, we are going to
focus on them.
His new book,
Cholesterol Is Not the Culprit,
focuses on the basic chemistry of food, how your body works, and how food fits into the equation.
Glycemic index, glycemic load, and chronic disease risk — a meta - analysis of observational studies) it was concluded that a diet
focused on low GI foods is associated with lower triglycerides and higher good HDL
cholesterol lipid profiles.
Another option if you are having trouble getting your
cholesterol down is to
focus more
on other factors.
This is because heart disease is not due to high
cholesterol therefore
focussing solely
on high
cholesterol is of limited benefit.
A heart - healthy diet
on the other hand, will limit unhealthy fats and
cholesterol, and
focus on low - fat protein sources, vegetables, fruits and wholegrains.
Past research
focused on weak epidemiological evidence to determine the link between saturated fats,
cholesterol, and CVD.
While the statement was made about saturated fats and
cholesterol in the diet, a huge
focus on the internet right now is coconut oil and whether or not it is healthy.