Cholesterol & Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Published research suggests that cholesterol levels commonly rise as people age and then decrease...
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Guidelines for Treating Blood Cholesterol
In 2013, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA)...
Cardiovascular Disease & Diabetes
According to the American Diabetes Association, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the major cause of...
Repeat Lipid Testing in CHD
For patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), current performance measures recommend annual...
Diabetes Side Effects: Breaking the Silence
Sexual and urologic complications among men and women with diabetes have historically received...
Enhancing Diabetes Knowledge in Patients
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) was established, in part, to improve treatment and...
A New Guideline for Treating Hypertriglyceridemia
Hypertriglyceridemia can substantially increase the likelihood of patients developing heart disease when compared with those who have normal triglyceride levels. While treatment strategies for this condition are well...
Lipid Levels Improving Nationwide
Lipid levels among adults in the United States appear to have improved between 1988 and 2010, according to a cross-sectional data analysis. Average total cholesterol decreased from 206 mg/dL to 196 mg/dL. Average LDL-cholesterol...
Cholesterol Levels on the Decline
The objective of Healthy People 2010, a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda, to have 17% or fewer Americans with high total cholesterol appears to have been met, according to a data brief from the CDC....
Protecting Against CVD in Type 2 Diabetes
Clinicians should take an active role in helping their patients with type 2 diabetes protect themselves from developing cardiovascular disease, or CVD, in the future. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been well documented as a...
A Collaborative Approach to Managing Depression & Diabetes
Published studies have demonstrated that many patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) often have comorbid depression. In individuals with diabetes or CVD, depression has been linked to poor self-management of...
Recommendations Released for Familial Hypercholesterolemia
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), a group of genetic defects that cause elevations in cholesterol levels, is associated with preventable, premature cardiovascular disease (CVD), and can be broken down into heterozygous and...
