New York: Smokers who successfully quit may enjoy yet another health benefit: improved cholesterol profiles. A boost in "good" cholesterol comes with quitting despite weight gain after putting out the last cigarette, hints a new study. If confirmed in future research, the finding could shed light on the strong, yet somewhat mysterious relationship between smoking and heart health. Up to 20 percent of heart disease deaths are currently blamed on...
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London: Millions of people worldwide take cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins to prevent heart attacks and strokes but a new study questions whether they actually work. Hailed as 'wonder pills' by doctors and drug companies, other new evidence has linked statins with severe depression and suicide. Statins are prescribed to anyone who is believed to have more than a 20 percent chance of a heart attack or stroke over the...05:57 PM, Dec 21, 2010
When Radhika Nayyar, 47, at last agreed to take drugs to lower her cholesterol level, her cardiologist felt he had scored a mini victory. For months, the good doctor had tried to persuade her to go on a dosage of statins but she stoutly refused to do so. As the world's largest selling drugs, statins have convinced millions of their power to reduce cholesterol and thereby the risk of heart...12:45 PM, Sep 15, 2009
The food you eat may not show on the weighing scale but it's on your heart. ...11:16 AM, Feb 18, 2009
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