Cholesterol – Diet and Health Today

Introduction to NICE There is a public organisation in the UK called The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Finland, diet, cholesterol & heart disease

This article is a continuation of last week’s review of the North Karelia study, which linked reducing saturated fat to

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

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