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Vitamin D may help cholesterol reduction in statin-treate...
...atorvastatin to lower the concentration of its active metabolite, yet may actually enhance reductions in total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol....
LDLR variant influences LDL cholesterol levels and...
MedWire News: A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the low-density lipoprotein receptor gene (LDLR) influences circulating levels of LDL cholesterol and subsequent risk for coronary artery disease (CAD), show study results.
Total and small LDL cholesterol increase after HIV antire...
...of Clinical Lipidology, total LDL and small LDL levels increased in all participants by an average of 152 nmol/l and 130 nmol/l, respectively. They note that an average increase in high-density lipoprotein of approximately 6.0 nmol/l was also...
LDL cholesterol level associated with cancer risk
MedWire News: Researchers have demonstrated a V-shaped association between low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and cancer incidence in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Juliana Chan and colleagues from the Chinese University of Hong...
HDL cholesterol additional predictor of in-hospital event...
...to measure levels of serum lipids, namely, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides. As published in the International Journal of Cardiology, the researchers found that adverse cardiovascular events were...
Non-HDL cholesterol target better than apoB for statin tr...
...cholesterol by a greater percentage than it does apoB,' reaching apoB target goals can be problematic or confusing. To investigate further, Ballantyne and colleagues assessed the relationship between low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol...
Silencing PCSK9 with therapeutic RNAi lowers LDL c...
...and reversibly reduce LDL cholesterol in animals, researchers show. Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) regulates low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) protein levels and function,' Robert Langer (Massachusetts Institute of...
Soy food consumption may not lower LDL cholesterol
MedWire News: Daily intake of the internationally recommended dose of soy protein and isoflavones does not appear to influence low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level in patients with mild hypercholesterolemia, show study results that...
Different plant sterol sources equally effective at reduc...
MedWire News: Plant sterols containing soybean oil, tall oil, and mixed tall oil and rapeseed oil are all equally efficient at reducing low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, show study results.
Human mtDNA variants linked to LDL cholesterol level in a...
MedWire News: Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol level is associated with mitochondrial (mt) DNA haplogroup in athletes, report investigators in the journal Mitochondrion. In this study, the researchers assessed the possible association...