“We need global awareness of lipoprotein (a),” Tremulis tells Fortune. “High lipoprotein (a) impacts one in five globally…And ...

Apheresis machine for extracorporeal elimination of LDL cholesterol in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia, hyperlipoproteinemia (a), hyperfibrinogenemia, transplant vasculopathy.

Some cholesterol is needed, but high levels—particularly of LDL ("bad") cholesterol—can increase the risk of heart disease. High LDL cholesterol levels cause plaque to build up in the arteries ...

Approximately 2600 clinic charts were reviewed at 2 lipid-specialty clinics, the University of Kansas Lipid, Atherosclerosis, and LDL-Apheresis Center and the Hartford Hospital Cholesterol ...

Methods: The total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels of 17 patients were measured on initial presentation and compared with the levels measured after pharmacological ...

Certain foods can naturally lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL), often referred to as "bad cholesterol." These foods work by providing soluble fibre, healthy fats, and plant sterols, which help ...

However, despite the affordability of generic statins, they remain underutilised worldwide. The use of ezetimibe to further decrease plasma LDL cholesterol and the targeting of other atherogenic ...

[13] A radically different approach to Lp apheresis involves extracorporeal precipitation of LDL by the addition of heparin to plasma, the so-called heparin extracorporeal LDL precipitation (HELP ...

Bhatia HS, Wandel S, Willeit P, et al. A participant-level meta-analysis of 27,658 participants enrolled in six placebo-controlled statin trials was performed to assess the association of LDL-C and Lp ...