Study Refutes Heart Health Claims of Dietary Supplements
CHICAGO — For people without heart disease, preventive low-dose statin therapy lowered LDL cholesterol to a degree that dietary supplements and placebo couldn’t match, a randomized trial found. People taking rosuvastatin 5 mg per day for 4 weeks had an average 37.9% reduction in LDL cholesterol, the only group to do better than the placebo […]
Eating walnuts daily lowered ‘bad’ cholesterol and may reduce cardiovascular disease risk
Eating about ½ cup of walnuts every day for two years modestly lowered levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, known as “bad cholesterol,” and reduced the number of total LDL particles and small LDL particles in healthy, older adults, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation. Healthy older […]
One Month of DAPT Reasonable in Patients at High Bleeding Risk
Dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for 1 month after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) lowered bleeding rates and was non-inferior for ischemic events compared with 3-month DAPT in patients at high bleeding risk, according to results of the MASTER DAPT trial. Among the 4,579 patients in the intention-to-treat (ITT) population, major or clinically relevant non-major bleeding occurred […]