Identical Twins Study Shows Vegan Diets Helping the Heart
FRIDAY, Dec. 1, 2023 -- A new study of identical twins has provided fresh evidence that a vegan diet can vastly improve a person’s heart health.
Twins assigned a vegan diet for two months had significant improvements in cholesterol, insulin... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - December 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
'Groundbreaking' study of twins shows that going vegan DOES improve heart health... in just eight weeks!
Identical twins who followed a vegan diet had lower cholesterol, better blood sugar levels, and more weight loss in just two months than those who ate an omnivore diet, a US study suggests. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Diabetic men show more brain plaque than their female counterparts
Vessel wall MRI shows that men with type 2 diabetes carry more brain plaque burden than their female counterparts, according to study results presented November 28 at the RSNA 2023 meeting.The findings also indicated that women with the disease undergoing hypoglycemic drug treatment for it showed significantly reduced brain plaque compared to their male counterparts, said presenter Xuejiao Yan, MD, of Shaanxi Provincial People’s Hospital in Xi'an, China."The total and proximal burden of intracranial atherosclerotic plaque in male patients with type 2 diabetes with acute cerebrovascular disease were significantly higher t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 28, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: RSNA 2023 MRI Source Type: news
Cholesterol drugs could stop fatal heart rupture in men
An AAA is a balloon-like swelling of the lower part of the aorta, the body's main artery that pumps blood from the heart to the rest of the body. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lower Your Cholesterol Fast With These 11 Easy Tips
Living with high cholesterol? WebMD gives you 11 tips to lower it, fast. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - November 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dr Eric Berg warns common cholesterol medication could 'worsen' heart problems
Surprisingly, the very medication to prevent cardiovascular problems could actually be causing them, according to a doctor. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pass the turkey -- and your family health insights -- this Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is also Family Health History Day, an annual national campaign to promote awareness of hereditary health traits in families. Has your grandmother, mother, aunt or sister had breast or ovarian cancer? Has your grandfather, father or uncle had prostate, breast or pancreatic cancer? Is there a history in your family of colon cancer, diabetes or high cholesterol? If any of these scenarios resonate within your family, you could also be at risk. Many hereditary… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 21, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Dentists should check patients' weight and blood pressure during check-ups, public health experts say
Routine appointments should include BMI, waist circumference, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure checks, it is argued, to identify middle-aged people at risk of health problems. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'I’m a doctor - here’s a powerful ingredient that can burn fat and boost your metabolism'
A study of more than 100 people found this ingredient promoted weight loss and improved blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Harmful to heart' foods that could raise cholesterol levels - doctor advises to 'limit'
From sausages to egg yolks, certain dietary staples could pose a risk for your cholesterol levels and heart health. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pharmacist-Based Strategy Places More Patients on Statins Pharmacist-Based Strategy Places More Patients on Statins
In two studies run in parallel, testing different strategies, automatic referral to a pharmacist was superior to EHR alerts for increasing statin prescriptions for at-risk patients.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Headlines - November 16, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Statins Reach More Patients With Pharmacist's Orders
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- One way of looping remote pharmacists into the primary care clinician workflow successfully boosted statin initiation in the cluster-randomized SUPER LIPID trial.
Researchers devised an intervention of asynchronous... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - November 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Verve Therapeutics ’ stock falls 40% as analysts question safety of cholesterol-cutting gene-editing treatment
Verve Therapeutics Inc. shares VERV, fell 40% premarket on Monday after the biotech company on Sunday released early-stage clinical trial data on its experimental gene-editing treatment for high cholesterol. The treatment, VERVE-101, reduced low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in people with…#vervetherapeuticsinc #verv #verve101 #pcsk9 #novartisags #nvs #leerinkpartners #andrewbellinger #deepakbhatt #elilillyco (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Novel PCSK9 Inhibitor Recaticimab Lowers Lipids With Less Frequent Shots
(MedPage Today) -- PHILADELPHIA -- A novel anti-PCSK9 monoclonal antibody with a distinctive longer duration of action reduced cholesterol and other lipids in the phase III REMAIN-2 trial.
Recaticimab showed long-term efficacy as an add-on treatment... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - November 13, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Two New Studies Point to the Promise of Gene Therapy for High Cholesterol
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2023 (Healthday News) -- Two new gene-editing treatments that target dangerously high levels of cholesterol in people with a genetic predisposition to the condition were found safe and effective in new, groundbreaking research.While... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
