The New York Times Health Blog
| 8 months ago
Cholesterol levels in adults are falling, and changes in the amount of trans fats in the American diet may be part of the reason, new research suggests. The findings , published Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, were...
The Los Angeles Times health blog
| 8 months ago
Amid what seems to be a nonstop onslaught of dispiriting information about the health of our nation, here's one bright spot: Americans' cholesterol levels have dramatically improved over the last two decades, according to a large epidemiological...
WebMD
| 8 months ago
Cholesterol levels are dropping among U.S. adults, new research shows. That's a good thing, as high levels of total cholesterol and LDL ("bad") cholesterol are risk factors for heart disease . From 1988 to 2010, average levels of total cholesterol,...
Newswise
| 8 months ago
The administration of intravenous chloride is ubiquitous in critical care medicine," according to background in the article. Many of the fluids used for hydration and resuscitation contain supraphysiological (an amount greater than normally found in...