What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ:Everyday, I read in the paper about how cholesterol lowering drugs have now definitely been shown to save lives. My doctor is pressing me to take pravastatin because my cholesterol is slightly e ...
The cholesterol myth is difficult to bury (WDDTY, vol 3, No. 1) despite increasing evidence that high cholesterol per se is meaningless as a marker for heart disease risk. A study carried out in ...
A dietary fibre called guar gum can reduce cholesterol levels by up to 26 per cent, new research has discovered. ...
One of the reasons that medicine is so befuddled about this entire cholesterol business is its insistence upon searching for an isolated area where, dietetically speaking, we've gone wrong. In do ...
HEART RISKS: Is another urban myth toppled?
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THE STATE OF THE DRUGS INDUSTRY, PART II: Were Bayer holding out?
More evidence of adverse effects due to low cholesterol levels has emerged in a study carried out in Hawaii. ...
The entire approach of lowering cholesterol is faulty. The Framingham Project, which followed a Massachusetts study group over time, found a significant correlation between total cholesterol and h ...
Although medicine has waxed lyrical, the latest wonder blood test for predicting your risk of a heart attack is no better than taking a careful history, according to an 18-year study.
