Cholesterol

Utilizing commercially available assays, researchers demonstrated the feasibility of evaluating the specific atherogenic contributions of lipoprotein(a) in cholesterol at the National Lipid Association Scientific Sessions.

New findings published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology highlighted the importance of favorable CV health among middle-aged individuals to prevent type 2 diabetes regardless of genetic disposition.

People living with HIV are at elevated CV risk and evidence-based cholesterol lowering therapies are either underutilized or contraindicated based on patients’ anti-retroviral HIV therapies, according to a speaker.

CAD has proved to be a highly preventable disease. Reduction in risk for CAD has been accomplished by changes in lifestyle such as cessation of smoking or lowering plasma cholesterol by drug therapy. Multiple randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials since the early 1990s targeting lowering of plasma cholesterol have consistently been associated with a 30% to 40% reduction in cardiac morbidity and mortality. Despite these efforts, CVD remains the most common cause of death in the U.S. and is also the most common cause of death throughout the world. Secondary prevention has been effective, whereas primary prevention offers even greater benefits and is more appropriate, if not necessary, to reduce this pandemic.

Healthy older adults who consumed walnuts daily for 2 years experienced reductions in total cholesterol and LDL, as well as small and total LDL particles, according to results of the WAHA trial.

The “ABCs” have provided a roadmap for primary and secondary CVD prevention since 1999, according to a speaker at the virtual American Society for Preventive Cardiology Congress on CVD Prevention.

The FDA requested removal of its contraindication against using cholesterol-lowering statin medicines among pregnant patients; however, most patients should stop statins once they learn they are pregnant.

In a Mendelian randomization analysis, LDL reduction associated with statin use was linked to elevated odds of type 2 diabetes, but not with other pleiotropic effects.

Drinking more milk is associated with lower cholesterol levels and could reduce the risk for coronary artery disease, according to a study published in the International Journal of Obesity.

A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in Hypertension recommends increasing physical activity to aid in lowering mildly to moderately elevated BP and blood cholesterol in adults.