Archive for the ‘Cholesterol’ Category
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Two new studies presented at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting suggest that an all-natural dietary supplement made from citrus may help people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood glucose numbers after a meal and their LDL-cholesterol levels. Mal Evans, DVM, MSc, PhD, KGK Synergize Inc.'s ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
eFoodSafety.com (OTCBB: EFSF, http://www.efoodsafety.com), a researcher, developer, and marketer of whole food nutraceutical products, has launched an all-natural supplement, called Cinnechol™ (http://www.cinnechol.com), that offers a complementary and/or alternative solution to traditional cholesterol drugs. Cinnechol is designed to reduce total cholesterol levels, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and triglycerides without adverse side effects ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
More people suffer from being overweight and have high blood pressure and metabolic disturbances in East Germany than in West Germany. This is the result of a study with almost 36 000 patients, published in the current edition of the Deutsches ?rzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[12]: 207-13).The so-called ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
At the 23rd Annual European Association of Urology (EAU) Congress, results were presented which added evidence that Levitra® (vardenafil HCI) works very well in men with dyslipidemia.(1) The double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in about 400 men showed that Levitra® significantly improved the ability of men with erectile dysfunction (ED) and high ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
In 2007, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers published a study that found people with low levels of LDL cholesterol are more likely to have Parkinson's disease than people with high LDL levels.But that study could not answer the question of whether low LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels were ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Trans fats are a cholesterol double whammy. Also known as trans fatty acids, trans fats raise low-density lipoprotein (LDL or "bad") cholesterol and lower high-density lipoprotein (HDL or "good") cholesterol.Experts consider trans fat the worst type of dietary fat. Trans fat contributes to heart disease by promoting low-grade inflammation in ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Monday sent a letter to the CEOs of Merck and Schering-Plough that requested additional information about their decision to wait for more than one year to release the results of a study on the cholesterol medication Vytorin, marketed by a joint ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced yesterday, Monday 31st March, it was stopping the JUPITER clinical trial on its cholesterol-busting drug Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) because early findings showed that the drug reduced deaths and risk of heart problems in patients compared to placebo.A press statement on the company's website said that the ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
People with diabetes have the same high risk for heart attack or stroke or cardiovascular death as people who've already had a heart attack, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association."The increased risk was observed in people at all ages with either type 1 or type 2 ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) issued a consensus statement that states the measurement of LDL particle number by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is one of the more accurate ways to evaluate cardiometabolic risk (CMR). The study, published in the April issue of Diabetes ...
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