August 5, 2008 at 9:37 am · Filed under Medical News, Cholesterol
With heart disease maintaining top billing as the leading cause of death in the United States, a team of University of California, San Diego School of Medicine physician-researchers is proposing that aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease.
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July 29, 2008 at 8:44 am · Filed under Medical News, Cholesterol
New research from over 223,000 patients published in the Primary Care Cardiovascular Journal (PCCJ)1, suggests that total cholesterol (TC) levels in statin-treated UK patients are higher than that of the general population. The recent Health Survey for England (HSE 2006) 2 found that the mean TC was 5.3 mmol/L in men and 5.4 mmol/L in women. This is in contrast to the average TC of 6.3mmol/L in the statin-treated population from this retrospective GP database analysis of The Health Improvement Network (THIN).
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