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 ...

Too much LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, puts you at risk for cardiovascular disease. Most doctors recommend limiting how much added cholesterol you get from your diet. Coffee doesn’t contain ...

Eating too much cholesterol or saturated fat increases your risk of high LDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, and heart disease. But while cheese can be a part of a healthy, well-balanced diet, which ...

[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 ...

Current methods of selective Lp apheresis are immunoadsorption, dextran sulfate adsorption, heparin-induced precipitation and double filtration of LDL and Lp(a) from plasma, or their adsorption ...