Cholesterol – Diet and Health Today

Introduction This week’s note feels like a retrograde step. I thought concerns about dietary cholesterol were behind us, but this

Is HDL-cholesterol bad?

Introduction Many thanks to Dr Mariela Glandt, from Israel, for this week’s topic. Mariela is an endocrinologist who has been

Introduction This week’s paper made headlines. “The type of coffee you drink can raise your heart attack risk“ reported the

Summary * Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) team.

Summary – The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (guideline setting organisation) has approved a PCSK9 inhibitor called

Introduction As sometimes happens, this week’s paper was sent to me by a few people. It’s an important paper, as

Summary – This note suggests a rapid rebuttal to the cholesterol hypothesis. – To get there, it goes through the