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Posted: March 12th, 2010, 7:00pm CST
People whose "bad" cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the Mar...
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Posted: March 12th, 2010, 3:00am CST
An experimental thyroid drug reduces cholesterol without the troublesome side effects experienced by some people on statins, according to a study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine...
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Posted: March 12th, 2010, 2:00am CST
Only half of all patients at high risk of heart disease are given correct targets for lowering their cholesterol levels according to a study of 25,250 patients in Germany published online 11 March in the European Heart Journal [1]...
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Posted: March 12th, 2010, 2:00am CST
A thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side effects. This according to a clinical trial conducted by researchers from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, amongst other centres, published in the top-ranking scientific periodical The New England Journal of Medicine...