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The 5 Best Ways to Control High Cholesterol, According to People With the Condition
There are a variety of factors that influence cardiovascular risk—but cholesterol is one of the first things that doctors pay attention to.
Having high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol is “definitely a variable we try to manage, because it’s been shown to be problematic for heart health,” says Dr. Adriana Quinones-Camacho, a cardiologist at NYU Langone Health.
Though it’s often called the “bad” kind of cholesterol, LDL cholesterol makes up most of your body’s cholesterol stores. That means it’s not a villain on its own, but when levels start creeping ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
Development and validation of a dementia risk score in the UK Biobank and Whitehall II cohorts
Background
Current dementia risk scores have had limited success in consistently identifying at-risk individuals across different ages and geographical locations.
Objective
We aimed to develop and validate a novel dementia risk score for a midlife UK population, using two cohorts: the UK Biobank, and UK Whitehall II study.
Methods
We divided the UK Biobank cohort into a training (n=176 611, 80%) and test sample (n=44 151, 20%) and used the Whitehall II cohort (n=2934) for external validation. We used the Cox LASSO regression to select the strongest predictors of incident dementia from 28 candidate predictors and then dev...
Source: Evidence-Based Mental Health - August 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anatürk, M., Patel, R., Ebmeier, K. P., Georgiopoulos, G., Newby, D., Topiwala, A., de Lange, A.-M. G., Cole, J. H., Jansen, M. G., Singh-Manoux, A., Kivimäki, M., Suri, S. Tags: Open access, Press releases Old age psychiatry Source Type: research
