After Continued Debate, Dietary Cholesterol Linked to Significant Increase in CVD
Higher consumption of dietary cholesterol is significantly associated with a higher risk for incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality among US adults.
Dyslipidemia
Insufficient Rates of Screening for Hyperlipidemia in Women During Pregnancy
Pregnant women are frequently not screened for maternal hyperlipidemia.
Inflamed foot in a patient with diabetes
A patient diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia presents to the foot clinic after one month of swelling, redness, and warmth in the left foot.
Managing type 2 diabetes in an outpatient setting
How would you help maximize this patient’s diabetes therapy, hypertension management, and reduce leg cramps?
Stroke incidence, mortality declines in senior patients
Incident strokes in the Medicare population aged ≥65 years decreased by approximately 40% over the last two decades.
High cholesterol may spell low fertility
The longest time to achieve pregnancy occurred in couples in which both partners had high cholesterol levels.
ACC: 1-in-3 kids has elevated cholesterol
Findings underscore the importance of universal pediatric cholesterol screening.
Statins plus exercise improve mortality
Combining exercise with statin treatment substantially lowered mortality risk among middle-aged patients with dyslipidemia compared with either method alone.
FDA clears first weight-loss pill in 13 years
The anti-obesity drug Belviq is designed to make people feel fuller sooner.
Niacin: An antioxidant and nutrition supplement
While niacin is well known for preventing pellagra, it is only in the past 15 to 20 years that other medicinal uses for this common vitamin have emerged.
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