Sentences with phrase «high cholesterol who»

Individuals with high cholesterol who smoke will receive a Smoker classification, at best, which results in higher premiums than a non-smoker.

In another study, people with high cholesterol who were taking one gram of spirulina per day were reported to have lowered triglycerides by 16.3 % and LDL by 10.1 % (35).

(One exception would be for very high - risk women with genetically determined high cholesterol who are on birth control, he says.)

Then there are plenty of people with high cholesterol who do nt have heart attacks.

A doctor of naturopathic medicine and a chiropractor, Dr. King found that his patients with high cholesterol who were not being aided by the drugs for that condition were helped by making bison their primary red meat source.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

Not exact matches

PCSK9 inhibitors, the main ingredients in Amgen's Repatha and Sanofi and Regeneron's Praluent treatments, were first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in July 2015 for use by patients with a family history of high cholesterol or those who suffered high - cholesterol - induced heart attacks.

Or those who are taking high cholesterol tablets?

Is coconut high in saturated fat for someone who is watching their cholesterol?

There are newer studies done also and mainly in 2004 there was one study that included 120 overweight individuals who already had high cholesterol levels.

Another study had similar findings, showing that those who ate buckwheat had a lower risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high blood sugar (22).

My wife joined me who also had high cholesterol at the time.

If you are a «saturated fat responder» - a person who reacts to saturated fats with high cholesterol levels - use reduced fat cheese in your quiche.

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?

However, there are others who accumulate cholesterol in the blood, resulting in high serum cholesterol counts that lead to atherosclerosis, which is plaque deposits of cholesterol, fats, and other remains in the walls of medium - sized and large arteries.

The paper abounds with sweeping statements that condemn dietary cholesterol, such as, «Children who have high cholesterol levels... are likely to maintain high levels as adults.

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.

Women who eat diets high in animal fats prior to pregnancy are twice as likely to get gestational diabetes and those with high cholesterol are 45 % more likely to get it.

Babies who consume breast milk high in saturated fat may be at increased risk of developing high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels later in life (Leeson et 2001; Mott et al 1990).

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.

Subjects who were breastfed experienced lower mean blood pressure and total cholesterol, as well as higher performance in intelligence tests.

A new study shows that the drug fenofibrate might reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who have high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol, despite being treated with statins.

The findings suggest that fenofibrate therapy may be beneficial in the way the researchers hoped: by reducing cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who take statins but still have especially high triglycerides levels and low HDL cholesterol levels.

«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.

Six lipid - lowering trials randomized 4,449 patients, who previously had a heart attack or stroke or had extremely high baseline cholesterol levels and were on statin therapy, to receive either bococizumab (150 mg subcutaneously every 2 weeks) or placebo to determine the effects on LDL levels.

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.

The study also revealed that obese individuals who had comorbidities such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol incurred more costs than obese workers without these conditions, says Karen Van Nuys, Ph.D., lead coauthor and economist at Precision Health Economics in Los Angeles.

Men who have higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness may delay by up to 15 years increases in blood cholesterol levels that commonly occur with aging, according to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Sui and colleagues used data from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study to assess levels of total cholesterol, low - density lipoprotein cholesterol, high - density lipoprotein cholesterol, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides in a total of 11,418 individuals who were observed during health examinations between 1970 and 2006 at the Cooper Clinic, Dallas, TX.

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.

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.

Those who hit this level were much more likely to report that they'd stopped taking medication to control high blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol, and achieved remission of an obesity - linked breathing condition called sleep apnea.

«Down the road, maybe police will be able to say, «This fingerprint was left by a 34 - year - old male who smoked marijuana and had high cholesterol,»» says team member Stephen Jarboe of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

By pre-identifying patients who have a personal and familial history of high - cholesterol, LipidSeq was able to find a genetic mutation in 67 per cent of those tested.

Once better understood, these genetic mechanisms may not only help to explain why not all of those who are obese develop related metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, but could lead to possible ways to treat obesity or prevent metabolic diseases in those who are already obese.

«It's long been believed that sleep apnea increases the rate of death,» says David Schulman, an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study, noting that those with apnea are more likely to have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.

That's according to William Neal of West Virginia University in Morgantown, and colleagues, who say that current methods of only testing children if high cholesterol runs in the family misses a third of those who would benefit from treatment.

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.

«One possibility,» Huang said, «is that statin use can be a marker of people who have high cholesterol which itself may be associated with lower PD risk.

Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol who receive cholesterol - lowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than their affected parents, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

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.

In a study, researchers compared the levels and function of high - density lipoprotein (HDL cholesterol) in people who ate almonds every day, to the HDL levels and function of the same group of people when they ate a muffin instead.

It is characterized in people who have at least three of five common issues that raise health concerns — excess abdominal fat, high blood pressure, low «good» cholesterol, and / or high levels of blood sugar and triglycerides.

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.

Extra note: see this recent ECCRI paper on circulating progenitor cells in people who have inherited very high cholesterol.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the postal workers who sat for most of the day also had larger waistlines, higher triglycerides (a type of blood fat), and lower HDL cholesterol (the good kind).

Those who had high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, or another heart - related risk factor were twice as likely to progress to Alzheimer's compared to people with no risk factors.

«Depression is common in older adults and more frequent in people with memory problems, vascular risk factors such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or people who have had a stroke,» Cherian explained in an AAN news release.

Those who consume these foods regularly are more likely to develop arteriosclerosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, and cancer.

Oral contraceptives can also raise the risk of stroke for some women, especially those older than 35 who smoke, as well as women with high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol, the NIH reports.