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Cholesterol Drugs Related To Autoimmune
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High blood cholesterol occurs when there is too much cholesterol in your blood. Your cholesterol level is determined partly by your genetic makeup and the saturated
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Thyroid Disease and Cholesterol
I recently saw a young woman in my clinic that was referred for treatment of a severely abnormal lipid profile. Her total cholesterol was... Read more »
Is there life for CETP inhibitors after the death of torcetrapib?
In the beginning of this year, I wrote two articles concerning torcetrapib, the $800 million failure of Pfizer to develop a new type of... Read more »
Type 2 Diabetes, Statin Drugs in High Doses for Cholesterol, Heart...
One of the cliches about treating diabetes is that having diabetes puts you in the same risk category as that of a person who has already... Read more »
The Dos and Don'ts of Taking Prescription Cholesterol Medication
What is the best way to take my pills? This question is at the root of more confusion than any other question in medicine. The public... Read more »
Stress and Auto-Immune Disease
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Autoimmune hepatitis
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Lupoid hepatitis; Chronic acute liver diseaseTreatmentPrednisone or other corticosteroid medications help reduce the inflammation. Azathioprine and... Read more »
Autoimmune disorders
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80... Read more »
New weight-loss drug may help people with high cholesterol
A new drug, Acomplia, has gone on sale in Great Britain, offering overweight patients their first weight-loss drug option since 1999. Acomplia has... Read more »
Cholesterol
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body. This includes the nervous system, skin, muscle, liver, intestines, and heart.... Read more »
Cholesterol Genes Linked to Age-Related Eye Disorder
Scientists have identified three genes that are linked to the eye problem known as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and two of these genes are... Read more »
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