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- Yoga, Meditation Help Reduce Stress
- SARS-like Virus Kills 5 Saudis
- Health Care Increases With Medicaid Access
- Study Shows How Fluoride Fights Tooth Decay
- Parent-Kid Talk
- Breast Milk Protein may Reverse Antibiotic Resistance: Study
- Vitreous Detachment
- Foul-smelling Gas Reduces Joint Swelling
- Molecular Role of Gene Linked to Blood Vessel Formation Uncovered
- Are Mobile Phones Contagious?
- Morning-after Pill for Age 15 and Up Approved
- Trying to Get Pregnant? Fertility Yoga may be the Answer
- Troubling Levels of Toxic Metals Found in Lipstick, Say Researchers
- Parents of Young Children Warned To Be Alert to Blind Cord Strangulation Risk
- Study: Food Dye Could Provide 'Blueprint' for Treatment of Panx1-related Diseases
- Study Examines Relationship of Medical Interventions in Childhood and Prevalence of Later Intellectual Disability
- Results Of First American Clinical Trial for Stem Cell-Based Treatment of ALS Encourages Researchers
- Seven-day Week Begins At New York's MoMA
- Revival Plan Creates Feud Between Russia's Great Museums
- Lok Sabha: Coal Plant Emissions Killed Up to 1,15,000 People
- Study: Postcode Inequality for Cancer Diagnosis 'Costs Lives'
- Tourist Influx Greets Iceland
- Building Safety in Quakes To Be Improved With The Help Of New Software
- Data Shows That People Are Getting Over Facebook
- Key to Good Health Is Belief in Benefits of Healthy Lifestyle
- Challenge to Live Below Poverty Line Excites Brits
- Maiden Oz Banknote Set to Fetch (Dollar) 3.6 Million
- Report Says More and More US Women are Taking Up Arms
- Majority of Muslims Want Their Countries to Implement Sharia Law
- Thousands Arrive in Amsterdam to Mark the Coronation of Holland's First King in 120 Years
- Health Officials in Bihar Express Concern Over Possible Encephalitis Outbreak
- New Warning System can Predict Dengue Outbreaks Weeks in Advance
- Filipino Waiting for the Last Decade for a US Green Card may Have to Wait Until 2027
- Chinese Medicine Continues to Evolve With Time
- Treatment Options for New Middle East Virus Explored
- Chinese Surgeon Accused of Organ Harvesting Should be Stripped of Australian Award: Academics
- Smoking Ban in Schools can Reduce Number of Future Smokers
- Risk of Acute Liver Injury Increases With Regular Use of Biologic Agents
- Tightness of Delivery Organ can Release Sperm Cells
- Researchers Come Up With 'Dream Teams' of Neurons
- State of the Art Scanner in Delhi Hospital Providing Accurate Diagnosis for Cancer, Heart Patients
- Artificial Heart Tissue That can Mimic Functions of a Real Heart Tissue Developed
- New Recommendations for Optimizing Rear Car Seat for Children
- Asking for Grocery Delivery Service can Save Environment
- Research Says Bad Fat Cells Could Convert into Good Ones and Vice Versa
- Women Using Assisted Reproduction Suffer Greater Psychological Trauma After Miscarriage
- Teen Girls Less Successful at Quitting Meth Drug During Treatment Than Boys: Study
- 'Catastrophic' Malpractice Payouts Don't Add Much to Health Care's Rising Costs in US
- Major Upper GI Bleed Linked to Death from Other Causes
- Study Validates Strong Link Between Inflammation and Low HDL 'Good' Cholesterol
| Yoga, Meditation Help Reduce Stress Posted:  Meditation, yoga, deep breathing and prayer produce immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in immune function and thereby help reduce stress and enhance wellness. The study from investigators at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) combined advanced expression profiling and systems biology analysis to both identify genes affected by relaxation ... |
| SARS-like Virus Kills 5 Saudis Posted:  During the past few days, five Saudis have died of a new SARS-like virus, says the health ministry. In a statement cited by the Saudi SPA agency late on Wednesday, the ministry said that all the deaths as well as the infections occurred in the Ahsaa province in the oil-rich eastern region of the kingdom. Known as novel coronavirus or hCoV-EMC, the virus was first detected in mid-2012 and is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), ... |
| Health Care Increases With Medicaid Access Posted:  A study by The New England Journal of Medicine, called the Oregon Health Study - which compared thousands of low-income people who received Medicaid with those who did not. Those who had gained Medicaid spent more on health care, visited doctors and hospitals. According to the study these people did not become healthier with Medicaid but it did reduce the incidence of depression and provided financial security. "There was this view that Medicaid ... |
| Study Shows How Fluoride Fights Tooth Decay Posted:  Recent study has finally solved the mystery of how the fluoride in drinking water, toothpastes, mouth rinses and other oral-care products prevents tooth decay. Karin Jacobs and colleagues explain that despite a half-century of scientific research, controversy still exists over exactly how fluoride compounds reduce the risk of tooth decay. That research established long ago that fluoride helps to harden the enamel coating that protects teeth from ... |
| Posted:  Finding it tough to handle your moody teen? Can't get along with your kid? Follow these tips to build that connection with your child. Read on |
| Breast Milk Protein may Reverse Antibiotic Resistance: Study Posted:  Breast milk protein may help reverse antibiotic resistance and offers a new path against superbugs, say US researchers. The findings in the journal PLoS ONE are based on lab experiments using petri dishes and animals to test the protein complex called Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tumor Cells, or HAMLET. Researchers at the University of Buffalo found that the compound was able to increase the sensitivity of tough bacteria to antibiotics, ... |
| Posted:  Posterior vitreous detachment is usually painless and may not impair vision. However complications such as retinal detachment may ensue. Vitreous fills most of the interior of the eyes. |
| Foul-smelling Gas Reduces Joint Swelling Posted:  Foul-smelling gas has proven to reduce joint swelling, this finding could lead to advances in the treatment of arthritis. Scientists at the University of Exeter Medical School have discovered that a novel drug molecule, which slowly generates the gas hydrogen sulfide (H2S), effectively reduces swelling and inflammation in arthritic joints. For years, H2S has been regarded as a highly poisonous by-product which is corrosive, flammable and explosive. ... |
| Molecular Role of Gene Linked to Blood Vessel Formation Uncovered Posted:  Disrupting a gene that acts as a switch to turn on other genes can keep blood vessels from forming and developing properly has been discovered by University of North Carolina researchers. Further study of this gene - a "transcription factor" called CASZ1 - may uncover a regulatory network that influences the development of cardiovascular disease. A number of other studies have already shown a genetic link between mutations in CASZ1 and hypertension. The ... |
| Posted:  Experts from the Michigan University are of the opinion, people are more inclined to check their emails or message inbox if their companion has done the same. You must have seen people clinging to their mobile phones every now and then. People are becoming addicted to mobile phones. The habit of checking cell phones is quite contagious. The experts have now discovered that cell phones have replaced the age old glancing habit of wrist watch. ... |
| Morning-after Pill for Age 15 and Up Approved Posted:  US regulators have approved Plan B One-Step, a brand of emergency contraception for those age 15 and up without a prescription. The decision by the US Food and Drug Administration to allow Plan B One-Step to be sold over the counter to some teens without a doctor's order did not go as far as a federal judge directed last month after a more than decade-long court fight. "The product will now be labeled 'not for sale to those under 15 years of age ... |
| Trying to Get Pregnant? Fertility Yoga may be the Answer Posted:  Yoga is an ancient Indian science involving the physical, mental and spiritual disciplines to improve the mind, body and soul. Fertility yoga, a recent concept, is a holistic therapy that focuses specifically on your reproductive health and makes you better prepared for pregnancy both physically and emotionally. Although yoga poses as such won't make you pregnant, it is the benefits of yoga in terms of stress busting, anxiety relief ... |
| Troubling Levels of Toxic Metals Found in Lipstick, Say Researchers Posted:  Lipsticks and lip glosses found in department stores contain lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminium and five other metals that could increase potential health concerns, say researchers. Their findings will be published online Thursday, May 2, in the journal iEnvironmental Health Perspectives/i. Prior studies also have found metals in cosmetics, but the UC Berkeley researchers estimated risk by analyzing the concentration of the metals detected and consumers' ... |
| Parents of Young Children Warned To Be Alert to Blind Cord Strangulation Risk Posted:  Doctors have warned in iArchives of Disease of Childhood/i that window blind cords pose a particular risk of accidental strangulation for young children. Children between the ages of 16 and 36 months seem particularly vulnerable, they say. The warning comes after they treated a 22 month old boy who was brought into the emergency department. He had been found hanging on the pull chain of a window blind cord. His mother found him blue ... |
| Study: Food Dye Could Provide 'Blueprint' for Treatment of Panx1-related Diseases Posted:  According to a study, the food dye Brilliant Blue FCF (BB FCF) could be a useful tool in the development of treatments for a variety of conditions involving the membrane channel protein Pannexin 1(Panx1). The study can be found in The Journal of General Physiology/em./a Panx1, which is involved in signaling events leading to inflammation and cell death, has been implicated in such diverse diseases as Crohn's, AIDS, melanoma, epilepsy, spinal cord injury, and stroke, among ... |
| Posted:  A study examines the relationship between medical interventions in early childhood and the increasing prevalence of later intellectual disability (ID). The study was led by Jeffrey P. Brosco, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Miami, Florida, and colleagues. (Online First) Researchers reviewed medical literature and other data from 1950 through 2000 to construct estimates of the condition-specific prevalence of ID over time in the United States and Western Europe ... |
| Results Of First American Clinical Trial for Stem Cell-Based Treatment of ALS Encourages Researchers Posted:  Researchers completed the first American clinical trial involving stem cell-based treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). They were encouraged by the trial study's results, noting that this delivery approach could be a helpful therapeutic approach for other traumatic spine-related problems. The group focused on the safety of a direct microinjection-based technique and neural stem cell transplantation to the cervical and thoracolumbar spinal cord. Eighteen ... |
| Seven-day Week Begins At New York's MoMA Posted:  New York's Museum of Modern Art plans to move to a seven-days-a-week schedule starting Wednesday, after a similar announcement by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The MoMA said it was ending its traditional Tuesday closings due to strong public demand. The expanded hours take the museum -- which houses collections of Picasso and other modern masters -- back to the schedule kept between its 1929 founding and 1975, when cost-cutting measures were introduced. ... |
| Revival Plan Creates Feud Between Russia's Great Museums Posted:  An unsightly public feud over an idea to revive a Moscow museum of Western art that was shut down by Stalin in the late 1940s ensued in Russia's two greatest art museums. The State Museum of New Western Art gathered the impressionist and early modern art collected by renowned Russian art collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov in the late Tsarist era. But it was closed on Stalin's orders in 1948 as the Soviet authorities rejected anything reeking ... |
| Lok Sabha: Coal Plant Emissions Killed Up to 1,15,000 People Posted:  The Lok Sabha was informed that emissions from coal plants resulted in 80,000 to 1,15,000 premature deaths and more than 20 million asthma cases in 2011-12 in the country. According to a report titled 'Coal Kills - An assessment of death and disease caused by India's dirtiest energy source', the coal-based plants quantified additional health impacts, such as hundreds of thousands of heart attacks. The estimated monetary cost associated with these health ... |
| Study: Postcode Inequality for Cancer Diagnosis 'Costs Lives' Posted:  If they were diagnosed at the same stage as those who lived in affluent areas, hundreds of women with breast cancer living in England's most deprived areas would have better survival rates. A new study led by the University of Leicester, working with colleagues from Public Health England and the University of Cambridge, investigated how much of a difference late-stage diagnosis had on women from deprived areas. The team calculated how many deaths would ... |
| Posted:  A wooden bridge covers a crack in the paved road leading to the site where the world's oldest parliament was founded in 930 in Iceland's Thingvellir national park. But the bridge is considerably younger, only dating back to last summer. It was built after a few hundred metres (yards) of tarmac road almost collapsed, buckling under a steadily growing stream of visitors. A hole in the ground revealed that the road was merely built on layers of sand that ... |
| Building Safety in Quakes To Be Improved With The Help Of New Software Posted:  A computer tool that will help improve building safety in earthquakes and can also be used in construction projects by companies located in seismic zones is being developed by a Spanish software company. The new aspect of this software, which is geared toward architects, engineers and construction firms, is that it is capable of calculating the effect that the facades, the partitions and the walls - which have a tendency to develop cracks in a quake - will have ... |
| Data Shows That People Are Getting Over Facebook Posted:  'Facebook fatigue' has reached Australia. New data has revealed that almost 400,000 users have drifted away from the social network since December. The data collected by social media monitoring firm Social Bakers showed that the network's monthly active Australian users fell from about 11.8 million in December to just over 11.5 million in the past week, News.com.au reported. It revealed that about 115,000 less people are logging on to Facebook each ... |
| Key to Good Health Is Belief in Benefits of Healthy Lifestyle Posted:  A new survey has shown to be true - people, who have higher beliefs in their ability to engage in healthy lifestyle behaviours also have more participation in behaviours that support their overall health. The survey led by The Ohio State University has supported what previous research has shown to be true. "Implementing programs that can strengthen faculty and staff's beliefs about engaging in wellness and improve their ability to engage in healthy behaviors will ... |
| Challenge to Live Below Poverty Line Excites Brits Posted:  Kathy Trevelyan happily contemplates eating a bland mixture of gloopy rice and cubes of vegetables for lunch for five days in the week. It might be standard fare for millions of people around the world, but it's not what the 58-year-old Londoner is used to. "Normally if you cook this with a fried onion and garlic and some spices, it'd be rather nice. As it is, it's... boring. But it's worth it," she told AFP. Trevelyan is one of 20,000 people ... |
| Maiden Oz Banknote Set to Fetch (Dollar) 3.6 Million Posted:  Auctioneers have revealed that Australia's first banknote, printed 100 years ago and found in a letter in England in 1999, has gone on sale for Aus (Dollar) 3.5 million (US (Dollar) 3.6 million). The 10 shilling note, with the serial number M000001, was issued on May 1, 1913 and presented by Prime Minister Andrew Fisher to Judith Denman, the five-year-old daughter of the governor-general at the time, Lord Denman. It was discovered in 1999, nearly 12 years after Denman ... |
| Report Says More and More US Women are Taking Up Arms Posted:  In a sign of changing times, 62-year-old Sharon Schaefer could not hide her delight at joining America's growing number of gun-toting women. "It was fun!" she exclaimed breathlessly, much to the approval of her instructor Teresa Ovalle. "You did a good job, Sharon," said the former Marine, who had just given the senior citizen a crash course in pistols at the Fredericksburg Range, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of the US capital. On ... |
| Majority of Muslims Want Their Countries to Implement Sharia Law Posted:  While a majority of Muslims want their countries to implement the controversial sharia law, there is a lack of agreement about the exact interpretation of the law and how it should be applied. The comprehensive Pew Research Center survey conducted between 2008 and 2012 focused on 38,000 people in 39 countries drawn from a global Muslim community of 2.2 billion people. A solid majority, notably in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, were in favor of sharia ... |
| Thousands Arrive in Amsterdam to Mark the Coronation of Holland's First King in 120 Years Posted:  With Willem-Alexander to be crowned as Holland's first king in more than 120 years, Amsterdam was flooded with thousands of people wearing orange suits, wigs and sunglasses. Over 25,000 people packed Amsterdam's central Dam Square in front of the royal palace where Queen Beatrix signed her abdication. "Today is a day in which we get together as the Dutch and celebrate and the monarchy is of course a part of it," Nick van Boor, 25, told AFP, pushing his ... |
| Health Officials in Bihar Express Concern Over Possible Encephalitis Outbreak Posted:  Health experts in Bihar have expressed concern of a possible outbreak of encephalitis in the state after this year's first death suspected to be caused by Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) was reported. One-year-old Sapna Khatoon died Monday of suspected AES at the Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH) in Muzaffarpur, about 70 km from here. Sapna's father Mohammad Jalaluddin, a resident of Sirsia Kalyanpur village in East Champaran district, ... |
| New Warning System can Predict Dengue Outbreaks Weeks in Advance Posted:  A Swedish researcher has developed a new warning system which she claims will be able to predict the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance by calculating the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature. This is what Yien Ling Hii concludes in the dissertation she is defending at Umea University on 3 May. Dengue fever is an infectious disease caused by virus and transmitted to persons by mosquitoes. A person contracted ... |
| Filipino Waiting for the Last Decade for a US Green Card may Have to Wait Until 2027 Posted:  Philippines' Arnulfo Babiera may have to wait until 2027 in order to reunite with his sister living in the United States as his application for a US green card, applied nearly a decade ago, continues to remain in a limbo. Foreigners seeking to immigrate to the United States under a family reunification program may however see changes on the horizon, with a new reform seeking to resolve the four million cases in limbo, like that of Babiera. "That is my ... |
| Chinese Medicine Continues to Evolve With Time Posted:  Chinese medicine may be a couple of thousand years old but despite its popularity, especially among the seven million residents in Hong Kong, it continues to evolve with time. A growing number of young university-trained practitioners are pioneering changes within the industry, providing traditional remedies with modern efficiency. Sofie Lau may work as a paediatric nurse and she may live in the modern, fast-paced city of Hong Kong -- but when it comes ... |
| Treatment Options for New Middle East Virus Explored Posted:  New research has indicated that a new virus that causes severe breathing distress and kidney failure elicits a distinctive airway cell response to allow it to multiply. Scientists studying the Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center, which first appeared April 2012 in the Middle East, have discovered helpful details about its stronghold tactics. Their findings predict that certain currently available compounds might treat the infection. These could ... |
| Chinese Surgeon Accused of Organ Harvesting Should be Stripped of Australian Award: Academics Posted:  A Chinese surgeon who had been awarded with a University of Sydney honorary professorship but has since been accused of harvesting organs from prisoners should be stripped of the award, according to a number of Australian academics. Huang Jiefu, who was trained in Sydney and until recently China's vice-minister for health, today oversees Beijing's organ transplant committee. The university awarded Huang an honorary professorship that was recently extended ... |
| Smoking Ban in Schools can Reduce Number of Future Smokers Posted:  Preventing smoking in schools can help reduce the number of students who could later on start smoking, a new study published by The Cochrane Library revealed. Smoking causes five million preventable deaths every year, a number predicted to rise to eight million by 2030. It is thought that around a quarter of young people may smoke by age 13-15. With a history spanning four decades, prevention programmes in schools try to tackle smoking at an early age before the ... |
| Risk of Acute Liver Injury Increases With Regular Use of Biologic Agents Posted:  A new study published in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology reveals that regular use of a class of biologic response modifying drugs can increase the risk of acute liver injury with elevated liver enzymes. Patients with inflammatory diseases such as Chron's disease or ulcerative colitis often are prescribed tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF- (and) #945;) antagonists, which modify the body's response to infection. Patients with inflammatory arthropathies ... |
| Tightness of Delivery Organ can Release Sperm Cells Posted:  A joint study conducted by researchers at University of Montreal and Concordia University has found that tightening the grip around the delivery organ can trigger the release of sperm cells. Concordia's nanobiotech team devised a microchip that enabled the University of Montreal biologists to observe what happened when pollen tubes - the sperm delivery tools used by plants - tried to negotiate a microscopic obstacle course. The pollen tubes were exposed to a series ... |
| Researchers Come Up With 'Dream Teams' of Neurons Posted:  Coming up with fantasy teams may seem to be part of the sports realm but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have used a similar approach and evaluated the fitness of individual neurons to come up with 'dream teams' of neurons. After assembling the teams, a computer simulation pitted the groups of neurons against one another in a playoff-style format to find out which population was the best. Researchers analyzed the winning teams to see what types of neurons ... |
| State of the Art Scanner in Delhi Hospital Providing Accurate Diagnosis for Cancer, Heart Patients Posted:  A hospital in New Delhi revealed that its state-of-the-art high-end scanner machine is helping doctors provide the right and accurate diagnosis to patients with cancer and heart ailments. The Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET/CT) scans set up at BLK Super Speciality Hospital gives an accurate diagnosis from staging to assessing the treatment response in both cancer and coronary artery disease. "The Positron Emission Tomography-Computed ... |
| Artificial Heart Tissue That can Mimic Functions of a Real Heart Tissue Developed Posted:  Researchers at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) revealed that they have managed to create an artificial heart tissue that can mimic the functions of the natural heart tissue. "Scientists and clinicians alike are eager for new approaches to creating artificial heart tissues that resemble the native tissues as much as possible, in terms of physical properties and function," said Nasim Annabi, PhD, BWH Renal Division, first study author. "Current biomaterials ... |
| New Recommendations for Optimizing Rear Car Seat for Children Posted:  The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has come out with a new report which provides details about optimizing the rear seat of passenger vehicles in order to provide better protection to children and adolescents. By bringing technologies already protecting front seat passengers to the rear seat and modifying the geometry of the rear seat to better fit this age group, the US could achieve important reductions in serious injury and death. Motor vehicle crashes ... |
| Asking for Grocery Delivery Service can Save Environment Posted:  Requesting home delivery service for your grocery items can benefit the environment as it can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as half compared to making individual trips to the store. Trucks filled to capacity that deliver to customers clustered in neighborhoods produced the most savings in carbon dioxide emissions. "A lot of times people think they have to inconvenience themselves to be greener, and that actually isn't the case here," said ... |
| Research Says Bad Fat Cells Could Convert into Good Ones and Vice Versa Posted:  Brown and white fat cells in a body can be converted from one cell type to the other, a new study conducted on mice by ETH Zurich researchers reveals. Their work provides important new insights into the origin of brown fat cells, which is a prerequisite for the development of successful anti-obesity therapies. Two types of fat cells can be found in mammals and hence in humans: White fat cells function mainly as highly flexible energy stores which are ... |
| Women Using Assisted Reproduction Suffer Greater Psychological Trauma After Miscarriage Posted:  Subfertile women who conceive through assisted reproduction are more likely to experience a greater traumatic experience following early pregnancy loss compared with women who conceive naturally, suggests a new study published today (1 May) in iiBJOG/i: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/i. Miscarriage is the most common complication of pregnancy affecting 20% of all clinically recognised pregnancies. This study, conducted ... |
| Teen Girls Less Successful at Quitting Meth Drug During Treatment Than Boys: Study Posted:  A UCLA-led study of adolescents receiving treatment for methamphetamine dependence has found that girls are less successful in giving up the drug and likely to continue using the drug during treatment than boys, prompting the need for new approaches for treating meth abuse among teen girls. Results from the study, conducted by the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and the community-based substance abuse treatment program Behavioral Health Services ... |
| 'Catastrophic' Malpractice Payouts Don't Add Much to Health Care's Rising Costs in US Posted:  The widely held notion that large, headline-grabbing and 'frivolous' payouts are among the heaviest drains on health care resources is not entirely true, a new review by John Hopkins researchers shows. Efforts to lower health care costs in the United States have focused at times on demands to reform the medical malpractice system, with some researchers asserting that large, headline-grabbing and "frivolous" payouts are among the heaviest drains on health care resources. ... |
| Major Upper GI Bleed Linked to Death from Other Causes Posted:  A study by UK researchers published in this week's iPLOS Medicine/i finds individuals who have experienced a major bleed from their stomach or oesophagus (known as an upper gastrointestinal bleed) may be more likely to die from other causes, particularly malignant tumours and cardiovascular disease, than those without an upper gastrointestinal bleed. These findings are important as they suggest that an upper gastrointestinal bleed may be either a cause or an ... |
| Study Validates Strong Link Between Inflammation and Low HDL 'Good' Cholesterol Posted:  Many of the genes regulating the inflammation and immune response of the body are also linked with low HDL-cholesterol levels in the circulation, a new study has confirmed. The study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland also discovered that the quality of HDL particle can vary considerably. Cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease. Elevated LDL-cholesterol, commonly known as the 'bad cholesterol,' is associated with increased risk of heart ... |
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