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View Post: Taking Note: Merck's Cholesterol Drugs—Low Hanging Fruit?
8 hours ago by Naomi Freundlich  
In articles for HealthBeat, “The Cholesterol Con—Where Were the Doctors?” and “The Origins of the Cholesterol Con,” that question whether lowering cholesterol will really help most people ward off heart attacks, Maggie reports that ...
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View Post: Your Health Educator: Primary Care Drugs
1 hour ago by Deirdre Dingman, MPH, CTTS, CHES, PAPHS  
Still the lowering of high cholesterol was a grand thing, but the important thing was reducing the number of heart attacks and doing so with the least side effects. Lipitor pretty much won that contest and when the original company, ...
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View Post: Statins 'cut healthy women's heart attack risk' cholesterol ...
17 Nov 2009 by ANI  
Statins may help prevent blood clots in heart patients. Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): A new study has shown that cholesterol-lowering drugs, also known as statins, may help prevent formation of blood clots in patients with cardiovascular ...
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View Post: Omega-3 fatty acids « CrossFit Newton
59 minutes ago by Gilaad cohen  
Clinical studies of heart attack survivors have found that daily omega-3 fatty acid supplements dramatically reduce the risk of death, subsequent heart attacks, and stroke. ..... Cholesterol-lowering medications — Following certain nutritional guidelines, including increasing the amount of omega-3 fatty acids in your diet and reducing the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio, may allow a group of cholesterol lowering medications known as “statins”, including atorvastatin (Liptor) , ...
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View Post: Obesity and the Salt Connection: More bad news about cholesterol ...
20 Nov 2009 by Willow  
We read such a lot of inflated claims about statins and suchlike drugs, clearly underpinned by drug company cash and lobbying, and absurd suggestions that more and more people should take cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their ... but mainly because the best and safest measures to reduce risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke, are to avoid salt and salty food, eat good nutritious meals, avoid taking unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs and abandon dieting. ...
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View Post: Abnormal cholesterol levels may raise risk of heart failure
23 Nov 2009
It might be possible to look back at data from clinical trials of cholesterol lowering medications, eliminate people who had heart attacks from the analysis and determine whether heart failure cases were lower in other people taking the ...
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View Post: Heart Heath Supplements
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View Post: Cholesterol: Bad Rap? « The Weight-Loss Blog of Fattie Fatterton
26 Nov 2009 by fattiefatterton  
Research disputes cholesterol's reputation as the primary culprit behind heart disease. Here's the real scoop on its role in the body, the right ways to bring it down naturally, and why cholesterol-lowering drugs may not be the cure-all we 've been led to ..... A study published in the January issue of the American Heart Journal found that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that fell within the recommended guidelines. ...
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View Post: Heart Disease Treatments-The Good and Bad of Cholesterol
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View Post: I Love my Heart: One heart attack is enough
9 hours ago by robert  
One month after their attacks, more than 90 percent of the participants said they were taking all of the medications on the discharge list. In contrast, less than 50 percent were exercising as instructed, had stopped smoking, ... Stiff, cholesterol-clogged arteries make your heart work harder. So does the scar tissue that forms in the part of the heart damaged by a heart attack. Keeping atherosclerosis at bay and strengthening the heart muscle will help you feel better, ...
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