Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ATLANTA – Insulin-sensitizing therapy yielded significant, positive increases in LDL particle size and LDL ...

Results showed that the ion mobility technique was very precise in measuring LDL particle size, producing a variation of less than one percent over approximately 48 preparations of the same sample.

Montreal, QC - Two new studies published in the April 1, 2006 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology evaluate whether any additional information can be gleaned from LDL particle size and ...

Lipid levels and CVD risk markers can be ordered as panels such as the vertical auto profile (VAP) test. Atherotech claims that their VAP test has a unique ability to identify far more areas of risk ...

Not all LDL cholesterol is created equal. Some particles of this blood fat are large and buoyant and breeze easily through your circulatory system. But other particles are small and dense—and four ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current treatment of hyperlipidemia is focused on decreasing LDL cholesterol to predetermined treatment goals ...

Lipids, such as cholesterol and triglycerides, are surrogate markers for lipoproteins. As such, abnormalities of plasma lipid concentrations (dyslipidemia) really represent dyslipoproteinemias. 3 LDL ...

The importance of small dense low-density lipoprotein (sdLDL) cholesterol in coronary heart disease has been demonstrated in many studies. Body fat accumulation, especially abdominal adiposity, is one ...

One reason some people live into their 90s and beyond may be a genetic variation that makes the cholesterol particles in their blood really big. “Supersize it” is not usually associated with good ...

A cholesterol report marked “normal” brings relief to anyone waiting for it. Many people read it as a clean bill of heart ...

The third guidelines from the of the National Cholesterol Education Program’s (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel (ATP III) have always placed an emphasis on therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) as an ...