Too Much of a Good Thing: Can HDL Cholesterol Be Too High? - Clinical Correlations
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Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking…
The effects of coconut oil were compared to butter and tallow. Even if virgin coconut oil and other saturated fats raise LDL “bad…
Yes, our genes affect everything we do, from educational attainment to health, but they are only a contributing factorThe cost…
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for establishing the efficacy of any intervention. But what do we do if the…
Each morning at the retirement community, the healthy 88-year-old man received a delivery of 25 soft-boiled eggs, which he…
The word cholesterol is inherent to heart disease. Just like Paris is the capital of France and the Moon orbits the Earth, so…
The word cholesterol is inherent to heart disease. Just like Paris is the capital of France and the Moon orbits the Earth, so…
Cholesterol is bad and lowering cholesterol is good. Well, at least this is what we’ve been led to believe for nearly four…
Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles in medicine for August 2012: Sanofi Announces FDA Approval for Auvi-Q…
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By Sagar S. Mungekar…
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BrieflyThere were always two types of cholesterol, the good and the bad. Until now. A large new study tells us that good…
TweetJAMA 16 May 2012 Vol 307 Do we all live on the same planet? I’m nearing the end of an amazing year at Yale, surrounded…
A recent study suggests that “good cholesterol” does not reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), challenging a…
Or at least I think it probably qualifies. That would be conflating association with causation, and it's a plague (hah!) in…
The failure of Roche's dalcetrapib has a lot of people wondering just what's going on with HDL as a cardiovascular drug target.
Also: A study shows chain restaurants largely don't meet U.S. government nutritional guidelines; an antibiotic is linked with…