Cholesterol News From Medical News Today
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:20 +0100
Safely Lowers 'Bad' Cholesterol In Statin-Treated Patients
People whose "bad" cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:00 PDT
Thyroid Hormone Analogue For Treating High Cholesterol
An experimental thyroid drug reduces cholesterol without the troublesome side effects experienced by some people on statins, according to a study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Cholesterol Targets For Heart Patients Not Being Met
Only half of all patients at high risk of heart disease are given correct targets for lowering their cholesterol levels according to a study of 25,250 patients in Germany published online 11 March in the European Heart Journal [1]...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
New Drug Candidate Reduces Blood Lipids
A thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. This according to a clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, amongst other centres, published in the top-ranking scientific periodical The New England Journal of Medicine...
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PDT
The New England Journal Of Medicine Publishes Clinical Results On Karo Bio's
The Swedish biotech company Karo Bio (Reuters: KARO.ST) announced the publication of results from a clinical phase II trial evaluating the company's liver selective thyroid hormone receptor agonist eprotirome and its ability to further reduce serum LDL cholesterol levels in statin-treated patients...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:00:00 PDT
New Drug Reduces Bad Cholesterol And Triglycerides Without Statin Side Effects
A new drug, eprotirome, has been shown to significantly lower bad cholesterol, triglycerides and Lp(A), without the side effects that statins cause in many people. Results of a study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Our study has shown a dramatic reduction in the dangerous fats that cause heart disease, the number one killer of Americans," said Dr...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Experimental Drug That Mimics Thyroid Hormone Safely Lowers 'Bad' Cholesterol In Statin-Treated Patients
People whose "bad" cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: High Cholesterol, Diabetes Lead Drug Spending For The Elderly
Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 - about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest AHRQ News and Numbers...
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Health Care Partnership Examined In Canadian Medical Association Journal
A research team from the Laval Centre de sante et de services sociaux, Universite de Montreal and McGill University Health Centre has examined the benefits of greater collaboration between family physicians and community pharmacists for select patients...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 PDT
Obesity As Protection Against Metabolic Syndrome, Not Its Cause
The collection of symptoms that is the metabolic syndrome - insulin resistance, high cholesterol, fatty liver, and a greater risk for diabetes, heart disease, and stroke - are all related to obesity, but, according to a review in the March 9th issue of the Cell Press publication Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, not in the way you probably think they are...
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:00:00 PDT
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