Sentences with phrase «patients with high cholesterol»

So that's another myth busted... the official first line intervention for patients with high cholesterol is not statin drugs... it's diet change... and that's official!

It is because of the known benefits of good diet that Doctors are encouraged to follow best practice guidelines which state that patients with high cholesterol must first be advised to modify their diet and lifestyle in an effort to lower cholesterol to the desired range.

A phase 2 clinical trial recruited 497 patients with high cholesterol, 73 percent of which were already taking statins, the current standard treatment for those at risk of cardiovascular disease.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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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.

Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.

I was quite fascinated by that and in that process, I started providing my patients with bison meat and saw it was lowering their high cholesterol and triglycerides.

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.

Bococizumab significantly reduces cardiovascular events in high - risk patients with high LDL cholesterol levels.

Inclisiran lowers low - density lipoprotein (LDL; «bad») cholesterol for up to one year in patients with high cardiovascular risk and elevated LDL cholesterol, according to late - breaking results from the ORION 1 trial presented today in a Hot Line LBCT Session at ESC Congress.

The trial included 501 patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and elevated LDL cholesterol (> 70mg / ml) despite maximum tolerated statin therapy and patients without ASCVD but with high cardiovascular risk conditions such as diabetes and familial hypercholesterolaemia in whom LDL cholesterol was > 100mg / dl despite maximally tolerated statin therapy.

The researchers therefore believe that the cognitive problems can be explained to a high degree by the risk factors that are common to patients with different types of heart complaint, for example diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

In preclinical studies using cell models that mimicked liver cells of patients with the rare disease Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a widely used cholesterol - lowering drug increased a precursor of HDL (high - density lipoprotein), the «good cholesterol,» according to new research published in PLOS ONE from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

An example comes from a patient with familial hypercholesterolemia — a disease that causes high blood levels of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) cholesterol because a cellular defect prevents the liver from absorbing LDL.

«Patients with higher LDL cholesterol levels are likely to experience even greater health benefits from taking statins and some of the newer cholesterol drugs.»

«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.»

Unmarried individuals were more likely to be female and black, have hypertension, heart failure, or high cholesterol and less likely to be smokers compared with the married patients.

Among type - 2 diabetic patients with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease — those with high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol (high - density lipoprotein or HDL)-- fenofibrate cut adverse cardiovascular outcomes by 30 per cent in women and 24 per cent in men.

Dr Nakano said: «Many randomised clinical trials, such as Treating to New Targets (TNT) and PROVE IT - TIMI, have shown that aggressive cholesterol lowering with statins improves clinical outcomes in patients with CAD and high LDL - C levels.1, 2 But until now it was not known whether aggressive lipid lowering with statins would also benefit CAD patients with very low LDL - C levels.»

However, Abraham's team found that IBD patients diagnosed at an older age (e.g., 45 instead of 35), those with metabolic syndrome risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and high cholesterol), and most importantly, those with longer duration of disease regardless of age at diagnosis, are more likely to develop NAFLD.

Two other vignettes consider other issues raised by a 78 - year - old patient with dementia and an abnormal heart rhythm, and the value of screening tests for high cholesterol or colon cancer in a 69 - year - old patient with dementia.

5/21/2008 Patients Find Relief from Liver Disease with Minimally Invasive Surgery at Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center At 66, Donald Fuhrman, a retired real estate broker and investor, looked like many men his age: enjoying world travel and in good health with just slightly high cholesterol.

Pro12Ala polymorphism in the peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor - γ2 (PPARγ2) is associated with higher levels of total cholesterol and LDL - cholesterol in male caucasian type 2 diabetes patients

PHILADELPHIA — In preclinical studies using cell models that mimicked liver cells of patients with the rare disease Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a widely used cholesterol - lowering drug increased a precursor of HDL (high - density lipoprotein), the «good cholesterol,» according to new research published in PLOS One from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, an endocrinologist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City who specializes in diabetes, prescribes these drugs to most of his patients, particularly those with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol.

The authors found that those with lower LDL - cholesterol and triglyceride levels had a significantly elevated mortality risk when compared to patients with higher LDL and triglyceride levels.

In a study of 333 individuals at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Sweden, Dr. B.A. Bengtsson found that patients with growth hormone deficiency frequently had high LDL (bad) cholesterol and low HDL (good) cholesterol levels.

The investigators also looked at a subgroup of patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic disorder that causes extremely high cholesterol that increases the risk of early heart disease.

Another article from 2004 measured changes in cholesterol levels in 83 obese patients with known high cholesterol and high glucose.

For example, she has seen dramatic results for patients with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure who go on a whole - food, plant - based diet.

In this study of 12 patients with elevated LDL cholesterol levels, a diet containing almonds and other nuts, plant sterols (also found in nuts), and soluble fiber (in high amounts in beans, oats, pears) reduced blood levels of all LDL fractions including small dense LDL (the type that most increases risk for cardiovascular disease) with near maximal reductions seen after only 2 weeks.

In fact, high cholesterol levels later in life are associated with reduced risk of dementia, and the CSF of AD patients has been shown to be lower in cholesterol than that of healthy controls.62, 63 HMG CoA reductase — the target of statin therapy — is abundant in brain cells.

Repeated infrared sauna treatments improved impaired blood vessel functions in patients with high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol.

This study discovered administering T4 to patients with «high - normal» TSH (2 - 4 uIU / mL) lowered their cholesterol, supporting the existence of a subclinical hypothyroidism with tangible harms, and numerous citing papers argue for a narrower reference range.

Half of female patients with hair loss have a constellation of signs and symptoms related to insulin resistance, blood sugar abnormalities, high blood pressure, and abnormal cholesterol.

I saw another patient who, except for a little bit of extra weight, was healthy until she was diagnosed with high total cholesterol levels.

I can't believe VCL is not prescribed to all patients with diabetes, PCOS, high cholesterol, etc..

In this study of 12 patients with elevated LDL cholesterol levels, a diet containing almonds and other nuts, plant sterols (also found in nuts), soy protein, and soluble fiber (in high amounts in beans, oats, pears) reduced blood levels of all LDL fractions including small dense LDL (the type that most increases risk for cardiovascular disease) with near maximal reductions seen after only 2 weeks.

Magnesium deficiency also leads to elevated blood sugar and cholesterol, so high blood pressure patients often end up with these conditions as well.

There are also studies showing that patients with higher levels of HDL cholesterol have lower levels of inflammatory chemicals in their bloodstream, so that could explain it.

This is seen in data where the percentage of patients with and without CAD who have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other surrogate outcomes is not 100 % and 0 %, respectively (45, 46).

(I have read the studies that equate high LDL levels with heart disease, but I am also aware that for many of these patients the standard of care is to first address diet and exercise before cholesterol - lowering drugs are used.

I use Guggul with patients only if they appear to need thyroid support and have blood sugar on the high side, because Guggul can address both, and achieving balance like this appears to reduce LDL cholesterol levels (it's known, of course, that low thyroid activity causes blood cholesterol to rise, and I couldn't agree more that hypothyroidism is seriously under - diagnosed).

If the cholesterol and triglycerides are too high, then the patient is returned to the primary care DVM with the aim of reducing the lipids preoperatively as their elevation can predispose the patient to lipemic aqueous syndrome (LAS) which can irreversibly damage an otherwise successful postoperative outcome.

If you have high cholesterol your aortic stenosis can go from mild to terrible 200 % faster than a patient with normal cholesterol.

'' Work with a broker who specializes in obtaining life insurance for heart patients and other high risk individuals, such as people with high cholesterol or cancer..