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Quiz: Your Heart-Health Nutrition Knowledge
Posted Thu, Sep 13, 2007, 3:21 am PDT
This heart-health quiz will give you an idea of how well you're keeping up with the latest heart-health diet information.
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Finding the Trans Fats
Posted Tue, Sep 11, 2007, 9:53 am PDT
Trans fats are the unhealthiest kind of fat because they raise LDL cholesterol and lower protective HDL cholesterol.
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Lifelong Low LDL Cholesterol: Are You Off the Hook?
Posted Mon, Sep 10, 2007, 11:20 pm PDT
Some people are fortunate enough to have an uncommon genetic variant that speeds the removal of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) from the blood.
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Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat Diets
Posted Sun, Sep 09, 2007, 4:52 am PDT
Will the debate about the relative virtues of low-carbohydrate vs. low-fat diets for weight loss never end?
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Aerobic Exercise Raises HDL Cholesterol
Posted Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 7:23 pm PDT
Exercise is always one of the first recommendations for improving blood cholesterol levels, but do readily achievable amounts of exercise really…
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ED: Powerful Predictor of Coronary Heart Disease
Posted Mon, Jun 18, 2007, 3:01 pm PDT
Although an association between ED and coronary heart disease (CHD) was suggested more than 20 years ago, an outpouring of research studies over the…
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Slowing Down Atherosclerosis: A Research Disappointment
Posted Mon, Apr 30, 2007, 1:41 pm PDT
Clinical trials of patients who were given two different inhibitors of ACAT have yielded disappointing results.
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Treating High Cholesterol in Children
Posted Wed, Apr 25, 2007, 9:02 am PDT
Physicians have been uncertain about how to treat high cholesterol levels in children because the guidelines from the National Cholesterol Education…
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Do Doctors Discriminate Against Older Patients?
Posted Tue, Apr 17, 2007, 4:09 am PDT
I advise all of you, but especially older readers, to ask your doctors about your LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides levels, and to…
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Angioplasties: Hospital and Cardiologist Are Keys
Posted Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 1:00 pm PDT
New guidelines state that cardiologists, after completing their fellowship training, should not begin to work at a facility lacking such backup…
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