Sentences with phrase «have high cholesterol for»

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So your cholesterol test is going to tell you if you have high cholesterol, which is a risk factor for heart disease.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

No, Bill is saying that if you get high cholesterol from eating pork then the Bagel company you work for shouldn't have to pay for insurance that would treat you...

And thanks for your feedback on the cholesterol Divided into individual - sized brownies they certainly aren't too high in cholesterol, but everyone has their own definition of what's right.

Chia seeds have an amazing nutritional value, are high in fibre and omega 3 fatty acids which are great for healthy brain and to reduce the cholesterol, they have a high protein value which helps to boost energy and stabilise blood sugar levels.

In a bid to take advantage of the boom in demand for fortified chocolates, a manufacturer claims to have developed a product that benefits those with Type - 2 diabetes or high cholesterol.

If someone has high cholesterol, is it OK for them to use it for cooking and making homemade toothpaste and rubbing it all over your body... etc..?

(fun fact: why is coconut fact a healthy fat - > Coconut milk has high LDL cholesterol, which is the bad fat, but unlike other fats coconut milk also has high HDL, which is good for the body)

Just a quick question, my husband has high cholesterol — would all these nuts and almond butter not be bad for his cholesterol??

Eggs — Once demonized for their possible link to higher cholesterol and heart disease, eggs are gaining in popularity now that it has been shown that they actually help protect against heart disease.

I'm trying to make these for my parents who have high cholesterol so I was wondering whether I could take out the egg yolks and just use egg whites in this?

Egg yolks have long suffered from a bad rap, blamed for being high in cholesterol and hazardous to one's health.

Other than being known for its superior marbling, Wagyu has higher percentages of omega - 3 and omega - 6 fatty acids, and is lower in cholesterol than commodity beef making it suitable for a healthy well balanced diet.

I have read that cholesterol is not the reason for high cholesterol but the inflammation but I hadn't taken the time to do more research via the internet.

Broccoli also contain high quantities of dietary fiber, helping your body to balance cholesterol levels, along with high doses of vitamin K, responsible for vitamin D assimilation.

Sure, I might have to pay for it later with tight pants, high cholesterol, and feelings of self - loathing, but being able to eat whatever the hell I want, when I want, is just one of the many freedoms I enjoy as an adult.

More than one third of children eating school lunches already have one of three disease risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels or obesity, said Deborah Rees, a dietitian for the Illinois association's nutrition and education training program.

However, the rules have been amended somewhat in the US and some pediatricians are now recommending reduced fat 2 % milk for babies between 12 months and 2 years of age who are overweight, at risk of becoming overweight, or with a history of high cholesterol.

These kids are at risk for health problems, including a greater chance of having high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type 2 diabetes, and are more likely to become obese as adults.

«Children with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure and lower levels of high - density lipoprotein, also known as good cholesterol — two factors that are considered major risk factors for heart disease later in life «Children with low vitamin - D levels also had higher levels of parathyroid hormone than their counterparts with adequate vitamin D in their blood.

Yet the same page offers cautionary advice for other kinds of meat, noting that «liver and organ meats are high in cholesterol» and «processed meats such as ham, sausage, frankfurters and luncheon or deli meats have added sodium.»

The same page offers cautionary advice for other kinds of meat, noting that «liver and organ meats are high in cholesterol» and «processed meats such as ham, sausage, frankfurters and luncheon or deli meats have added sodium.»

According to the April 21 study, women who lactated for two years during their lifetime had a 13 percent lower risk for high blood pressure and a 20 percent lower risk for high cholesterol than women who never breastfed.

«Whether individuals who have a defect in SCARB1, and as a result have high HDL cholesterol, are at an increased risk for heart attack is still an open question,» says Kathiresan.

All patients had Type 2 diabetes and had filled prescriptions for statin medication to treat high cholesterol between 2003 and 2004.

«We found that Amish people with this mutation have defects in fat storage, increased fat in the liver, high triglycerides, low «good» (HDL) cholesterol, insulin resistance and increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes,» says the study's senior author, Coleen M. Damcott, Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition and member of the Program for Personalized and Genomic Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

The study included 3,731 obese adults and overweight adults who had at least one other risk factor for heart disease, such as prediabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

«We have known for decades that high total cholesterol becomes a much weaker risk for cardiovascular disease with advancing age,» said Diamond.

«People with psoriasis, particularly those with more severe disease, have an increased risk for a variety of other health problems, including obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke and heart attack,» says board - certified dermatologist Jashin J. Wu, MD, FAAD, director of dermatology research at the Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

Making a change to the PCSK9 gene, for example, would lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and for someone with high LDL — the bad kind of cholesterol — it could be the difference between life and death, he says.

«They were not developed for cancer, they were manufactured for people with hypercholesterolemia [chronic condition where patients have very high level of cholesterol in their blood], but it will be interesting for us to test them with cancer patients and see if there is improvement.»

Now, for the first time, scientists in Göttingen have solved the high - resolution structure of the molecular transporter TSPO, which introduces cholesterol into mitochondria.

It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.

Hawaii school - children rated by their teachers in the 1960's as less conscientious had worse global health status as adults and had significantly greater obesity, high cholesterol, and increased risk for cardiovascular disease.

The NIH also sets a BMI threshold of 35 for those who have already begun to experience weight - related health conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol and heart disease.

They also had a 66 percent lower risk for heart disease factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or type 2 diabetes.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Darshak Sanghavi, chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, notes that although the FDA has approved some statins for use in children with a genetic problem leading to high cholesterol, there are no studies on the drugs» long - term side effects in children.

Although Tofu is high in calcium and has no cholesterol, most of these women didn't eat it for its healthy qualities.

It also showed that the public cost of expanding public coverage for high - cost drugs — such as treatments for cancer and rheumatoid arthritis — would be modest and, under most plausible scenarios, would be offset by savings achieved in relatively common drug classes — like treatments for high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

The contribution of smoking and high cholesterol has appeared to fall in recent years (changing from.15 to.13 for smoking, and from.18 to.09 for high cholesterol).

Researchers have developed a «global human metabolic network» that could pave the way for new treatments aimed at disorders like diabetes and high cholesterol

The most thorough study to date had some 3,000 men with «high» cholesterol levels take a statin every day for five years, while 3,000 similar men took a placebo.

«As the number of obese children with high cholesterol continues to grow, we need to have effective lifestyle modifications to help them reverse their risk factors for heart disease,» Dr. Macknin said.

Golomb, a dark - haired whiz kid who graduated from the University of Southern California with highest honors at age 19, is an M.D. with a Ph.D. in biology and has been studying cholesterol and statins for more than a decade under research grants given by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

The idea that plasma high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL - C) is protective against coronary heart disease has been part of medical conventional wisdom for five decades.

«On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you don't have any calcified plaque, our estimations indicate that use of aspirin would result in more harm than good, even if you have risk factors for heart disease such as high cholesterol or a family history of the disease.»

Cancer treatments dominate the list, but since 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new protein - based biologics for the treatment of Lupus, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, kidney failure, asthma and high cholesterol.

It has been suggested that a high serum cholesterol level is a risk factor for (AD), and that some polymorphisms of genes encoding proteins regulating cholesterol metabolism are associated with AD development.

So, if you have high cholesterol, you know you're at a higher risk for a heart attack, for example, or if you have high blood pressure, that's a biomarker for having a stroke.