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Don't Let "Good" Cholesterol Numbers Fool You into Poor Heart Health
It seems that almost every day I read a new article about how to "aggressively" treat people who are considered high-risk for heart attack. These bold new programs profess to attack heart disease from every angle or teach you how to start your own "Manhattan Project" to nuke heart disease.
Invariably, these "shock and awe" programs are simply about intensifying the use of conventional technology and are almost totally devoid of anything on that resembles new or cutting edge science. In th...
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...exercise is required to significantly change cholesterol levels, notably by increasing HDL (the so-called good cholesterol). Overweight people who have trouble losing pounds can still achieve... Read more »Related News
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Study: Crestor best at boosting good cholesterol
October 02, 2008A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that Crestor is better than some other statins at increasing good... Read summary »
Ladies, Keep an Eye on That Cholesterol!
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Drugmaker abandons heart drug after deaths, heart problems
October 02, 2008Drugmaker Pfizer has stopped development of torcetrapib, a drug that raises good-cholesterol levels. The company made the decision after an... Read summary »
Ask the Editor: What's so 'good' and 'bad' about cholesterol?
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