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Reducing HDL cholesterol may have an impact on infertility: Research
Updated : 6 days, 2 hours ago IST
Researchers at Houston Methodist demonstrated another link between high cholesterol and female infertility in sterile mice by lowering high levels of circulating cholesterol with a bacterial protein.
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Way to reverse infertility is by reducing HDL cholesterol: Research
Updated : 6 days, 16 hours ago IST
By lowering high levels of circulating cholesterol with a bacterial protein, researchers at Houston Methodist demonstrated another link between high cholesterol and female infertility in sterile mice. One in five American women of reproductive age still cannot conceive after trying for a yea
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Statins may lower heart disease in people with sleep apnea: Study
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
According to a new study by Columbia University researchers, cholesterol-lowering medicines known as statins have the potential to minimise heart disease in persons with obstructive sleep apnea regardless of whether they use CPAP equipment at night.
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Research: Alzheimer's development linked to cholesterol, toxic protein clu
Updated : 2 weeks, 5 days ago IST
Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Study finds development of Alzheimer's linked with cholesterol, toxic prot
Updated : 3 weeks, 2 days ago IST
Researchers at Texas A&M's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences discovered that cholesterol significantly boosts the toxicity of a peptide linked to the advancement of Alzheimer's disease.
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Study finds how surgery can prevent abdominal aneurysms
Updated : 4 weeks, 1 day ago IST
When the artery that supplies the stomach and liver bulges and ruptures, 50 percent of patients die before they reach the hospital. This "silent killer," known as abdominal aortic aneurysm, killed Albert Einstein and is responsible for nearly 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. Rese
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Manipal Hospital Old Airport Road performs first of its kind plasma filtra
Updated : 1 month, 4 weeks ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], January 25 (ANI/PRNewswire): A 34-year-old Suma (name changed), diagnosed with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH) since 2014 was referred to Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bengaluru. HoFH is a condition where two abnormal genes one from each p
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Study: Cholesterol increases risk of Alzheimer's and heart disease
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers at the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome and the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that a single mechanism may underlie the damaging effect of cholesterol on the brain and on blood vessels.
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Research: Genetic clues link lipoprotein A to prostate cancer risk
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A new analysis has uncovered a potential link between higher prostate cancer risk and genetic variants associated with higher bloodstream levels of the cholesterol-transporting molecule lipoprotein A. Anna Ioannidou of Imperial College London, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in t
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TAVI or TAVR is a Boon for Patients with Critical Heart Valve-Related Cond
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], December 27 (ANI/PRNewswire): In the field of Cardiac science, a relatively new but safe and successful non-surgical technique (TAVI/TAVR) is advocated, giving new hope for life to patients with specific heart-valve-related conditions. Patients who have Aortic
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Warning signs of sudden cardiac arrest provide opportunity for prevention
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Sudden cardiac arrest causes one in five deaths in industrialised countries.2 Most sudden cardiac arrests occur in the community in people not known to be at risk. A cardiac arrhythmia, called ventricular fibrillation, causes the heart to stop pumping and blood flow to cease. If blood flow i
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Bad cholesterol, high blood pressure contribute to heart attack risk
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According to new research published in Hypertension, a journal of the American Heart Association, high levels of lipoprotein(a), a type of "bad" cholesterol, may be linked to an 18-20 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease among those who have hypertension. However, CVD risk was n
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