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October 03, 2008
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Making Sense of Cholesterol Ratios, Lipid Profiles and Your Heart Disease Risk Scores
By Lisa Nelson, RD, LN , Health Expert...amount of bad (LDL) cholesterol to your good (HDL) cholesterol levels. You want a ratio less... Read more »
High Cholesterol and Alzheimer's Disease: Is There a Connection?
By Dr. Kang , Health Expert...appears to be independent and unaffected by serum cholesterol levels. One reason is that the... Read more »
Lowering Cholesterol with Sterols and Stanols
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert...sterols and stanols, touted as being able to lower cholesterol levels. But, what are they, and... Read more »
Cholesterol Education Month: A Year in Review and What’s to Come
By Dr. Kang , Health Expert...calls to more aggressively screen and treat abnormal cholesterol levels in women. This... Read more »
5 Simple Ways to Increase Your Good Cholesterol Levels
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert...have been told that you need to lower your LDL (bad) cholesterol levels, and increase your HDL... Read more »
Health Guide
Cholesterol Information After Diagnosis
...contribute to raising LDL and lowering HDL. Read our guide to healthy eating and start improving your cholesterol levels today. What Do I Do Now?One of the first steps you should take after... Read more »New York City Bans Trans Fats
...trying to legislate people’s diets. However, trans fats have been found to have an adverse effect on cholesterol levels because they lower your good cholesterol level while raising your bad... Read more »What is Cholesterol?: A Patient Guide
...people (more than 50 percent by recent estimates) are either inadequately treated or unaware that their cholesterol level is too high. Considering that more than million estimated American adults... Read more »High blood cholesterol and triglycerides treatments
...Dyslipidemia; Hypercholesterolemia Treatment There are steps that everyone can take to improve their cholesterol levels, and help prevent heart disease and heart attack. Here are the... Read more »VLDL Cholesterol Tests
Lipoproteins are mixtures of cholesterol and proteins in the blood. They that transport cholesterol, triglycerides, and other lipids to different parts of the body. There are three... Read more »Images
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Tips for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels
October 03, 2008Experts at LifeMasters, a provider of health improvement programs, offer these tips for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels. The tips include... Read summary »
Ask the Editor: What's so 'good' and 'bad' about cholesterol?
October 03, 2008Q: Hi, could you tell me the difference between good and bad cholesterol and how triglycerides fit into heart problems? Thanks. � Susan,... Read summary »
Total cholesterol, HDL levels good predictors of heart risk
October 03, 2008Experts at Boston University say measuring patients' total cholesterol and good cholesterol levels is sufficient to predict their heart disease risk.... Read summary »
Low Cholesterol Linked to Premature Birth
October 29, 2007By Kate McHugh, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Women with very low cholesterol levels have an increased risk of... Read summary »
Midlife Cholesterol Tied to Alzheimers
April 21, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Heart disease is the most well known complication of high cholesterol, motivating many to cut the fat, exercise and take... Read summary »
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