My test results...8/14/09
TC ..150 TriG.... 554 HDL...23 LDL...cannot be measured but in the past were >100. A1C... 5.5 Glucose.... 90
5ft 7in tall.. 215lbs. 42yrs old. ... Read more
My doctor recently prescribed me simvastatin to try and get my cholesterol under control.
I wasn't thrilled about having to pay for more medications. I was searching around trying to find the lowest price on simvastatin.
I found an online US pharmacy called HealthWarehouse.com that is offering Simvastatin 30-day supply at... Read more
By the early 1990s, the link between high cholesterol and heart disease was well established and the era of therapies to lower cholesterol with the intent of reducing heart disease risk had begun. In this decade, hundreds of studies and tens of thousands of patients were enrolled in various trials which showed that lowering cholesterol both... Read more
My mother is a patient of, high cholesdterol, Hyper Thyroide & type II Diabetes. She is taking Atorva, Thyroxine & Glucophage respectively.
Now her reports says that her liver is getting fatty.
Is it the side effect of Atorva??
That’s a question more and more people in the medical
community are beginning to wonder. Anectodotal reports from several prominent physicians and medical
centers have surfaced claiming that statins are associated with significant
cognitive and memory impairment. In most
of the stories, the memory loss was temporary... Read more
This video animation shows how cholesterol behaves in the blood stream. Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like, waxy substance found in the bloodstream and in all your body's cells.
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