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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...

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...

Many of the genes regulating the inflammation and immune response of the body are also associated with low HDL-cholesterol levels in the circulation, tells the recent study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The research also discovered that the quality of HDL particle can vary considerably. Cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. Elevated LDL-cholesterol, commonly known as the 'bad cholesterol,' is associated with increased risk of heart disease while...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Multiple studies have concluded high amounts of cholesterol can be damaging to your heart and can, in turn, lead to Alzheimer’s disease or stroke. Though this single fact has been well documented, the exact reason why high cholesterol affects the brain has been largely unclear for many years. Researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome and the University of Colorado School of Medicine have studied this link and...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Michigan (UMich) have found a new genetic target which they believe could be used instead of -- or along with -- statins to help lower a person’s cholesterol. Scientists working in the lab of David Ginsburg at the Ann Arbor-based university’s Life Sciences Institute managed to inhibit the action of a gene responsible for transporting a protein known to interfere with the liver’s ability to...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The formula currently used to calculate an individual’s “bad” cholesterol levels is often inaccurate, sometimes underestimating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels in those most at risk, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered. Their study, published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, explains that the Friedewald equation – which has been used to gauge a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc., today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 study to investigate the safety and tolerability of CAT-2003 in healthy volunteers and in adults with mildly elevated lipids. CAT-2003 is a conjugate of niacin and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), an omega-3 fatty acid, covalently linked using the company's proprietary SMART Linker technology to create a new chemical entity and is being developed for...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online UCLA researchers writing in the Journal of Lipid Research say they have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide that mimics the actions of good cholesterol when consumed. The authors said this is one of the first examples of a peptide that acts like the main protein in good cholesterol, and it can be delivered simply by eating the fruit. A peptide is a chemical compound containing two or more amino acids coupled by a...