Vehicle Emissions Have An Effect On Cholesterol
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Emissions from car and truck exhaust have already been proven to have negative and lasting effects on the earth’s atmosphere and our overall environment. This week, academic...
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Placement Marks Commercial Launch of the Vantera Clinical Analyzer for Clinical Labs RALEIGH, N.C., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LipoScience, Inc., (NASDAQ: LPDX) a diagnostic company pioneering a new field of personalized nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) diagnostics to advance the quality of patient care, today announced availability of NMR lipoprotein particle testing using the Vantera(®) Clinical Analyzer through Mayo Medical Laboratories. NMR lipoprotein testing on the...
ISTANBUL, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The congress of the ERA-EDTA (European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association) is the biggest congress in Europe on nephrology and renal replacement therapy. Nearly 10,000 participants are in Istanbul to share their knowledge and discuss the latest research findings. New pioneering studies have been presented: / (1) Gupta, A et al. "SOLUBLE FERRIC PYROPHOSPHATE (SFP) ADMINISTERED VIA HEMODIALYSATE REDUCES...
Control of heart disease risk factors varies widely among outpatient practices, according to a study presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2013. Researchers compared electronic health records of 115,737 patients in 18 primary care and cardiology practices participating in The Guideline Advantage™, a collaboration of the American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association and American Heart Association that aims to...
Pressure BioSciences' PCT Platform Enhances Study Results SOUTH EASTON, Mass., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced the publication in the journal Analytical Chemistry of a study by a team of scientists led by Dr. Bruce Kristal, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, entitled: Method Development for Fecal Lipidomics...
Non-white patients have 50 percent greater odds, women have 10 percent greater odds of being non-adherent to statin medications for treatment of high cholesterol WOONSOCKET, R.I., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- High cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for coronary heart disease, heart attack and stroke,[1] which can be well managed with available prescription medications. New research sheds light onto the impact of gender and race on medication adherence for statins used to...
Largest study of LDL blood levels, based on tests of nearly 105 million Americans, suggests improvements in cardiovascular health may have stalled in recent years MADISON, N.J., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Decades of declines in LDL cholesterol blood levels, a key marker of death risk from heart disease, abruptly ended in 2008, and may have stalled since, according to a multi-year, national study published in PLOS ONE. The study, by researchers at Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX),...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Unusual swelling within some of the brain’s neurons might be responsible for the reversible memory loss and impaired thinking ability experienced by some patients who take cholesterol-lowering statins, researchers from the University of Arizona (UA) claim in a new study. The side effects, which have been observed by both physicians and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) personnel, could be caused by this phenomenon –...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Doctors have long considered many nuts to be quite heart healthy. The fatty acids found in nuts along with high doses of fiber and vitamins are thought to reduce the levels of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol in the blood. Now, a team of Penn State researchers are parroting other studies that have found walnuts to be one of the healthiest nuts there is. “We already know that eating walnuts in a heart-healthy diet can lower blood...
Each year nearly half of all firefighter deaths are caused by heart attacks1 WASHINGTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Heart attacks are the leading cause of on-duty firefighter fatalities, with more than half of all firefighter fatalities attributed to them.[1] In an effort to change this alarming statistic, Cardioviva(TM) and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) are teaming up to educate fire service and emergency medical technician (EMT) volunteers about the dangers of high...
WOODBRIDGE, ON, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Pivotal Therapeutics Inc. (OTCQX: PVTTF) (CNSX: PVO), a specialty pharmaceutical company with a focus on Omega-3 therapies for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and overall health, presented positive, statistically significant, top-line results from its VASCAZEN(®)-REVEAL trial for the Company's lead product VASCAZEN(®), a unique >90% pure Omega-3 prescription medical food with a proprietary 6:1 EPA:DHA fatty acid formulation. The results...
