News tagged with lipoprotein

No need to fast for cholesterol test

(PhysOrg.com) -- Patients do not need to fast before having their cholesterol tested, a major study has found.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

We are not only eating 'materials', we are also eating 'information'

In a new study, Chen-Yu Zhang's group at Nanjing university present a rather striking finding that plant miRNAs could make into the host blood and tissues via the route of food-intake. Moreover, once inside the host, they ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Little known type of cholesterol may pose the greatest heart disease risk

Health-conscious people know that high levels of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol (the so-called "bad" cholesterol) can increase the risk of heart attacks. Now scientists are reporting that another form ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function

Research by an Iowa State University scientist suggests that cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins may lessen brain function.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Most heart attack patients' cholesterol levels did not indicate cardiac risk

A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a cardiovascular event, according to current national ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Cholesterol's link to heart disease gets clearer -- and more complicated

By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer, if more complicated, picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The findings reported in the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers explore role of fat-carrying lipids in diabetes

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a review article published this month in Nature Reviews: Nephrology, UC Davis cardiovascular specialists elucidate the role of triglyceride-rich lipoproteins — carriers of fats in the blood — in the in ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

One in five U.S. teenagers has high cholesterol

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, has found that over 20% of teenagers in the U.S. have elevated cholesterol levels ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

New links between cholesterol and depression in the elderly

Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to one's risk for depression, and that abnormal ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Study reinforces link between obesity, high-fat meals and heart disease

The effect of a high-fat meal on blood vessel walls can vary among individuals depending on factors such as their waist size and triglyceride levels, suggests new research at UC Davis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9

High levels of 'good' cholesterol may cut bowel cancer risk

High levels of "good" (high density lipoprotein) HDL cholesterol seem to cut the risk of bowel cancer, suggests research published online in Gut.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Apolipoprotein(a): A natural regulator of inflammation

In a study to be published in the January 09 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Hoover-Plow and co-workers in seeking to define a role of apo(a) in leukocyte recruitment have identified a novel activity of apo(a) ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research suggests common anti-seizure medications may increase risk of cardiovascular problems

An important clinical repercussion in the treatment of epilepsy has been discovered by a research team led by Scott Mintzer, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Newly discovered gene regulates balance of 'bad' cholesterol

In an article in Science, Noam Zelcer from the LACDR (The Netherlands) describes a previously unknown mechanism for regulating the amount of LDL cholesterol. This offers opportunities for supplementing and im ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obesity is a poor gauge for detecting high cholesterol levels in children

With the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States, there is concern that overweight and obese children need to be screened for chronic medical conditions, including high cholesterol levels.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Lipoprotein

A lipoprotein is a biochemical assembly that contains both proteins and lipids water-bound to the proteins. Many enzymes, transporters, structural proteins, antigens, adhesins, and toxins are lipoproteins. Examples include the high-density (HDL) and low-density (LDL) lipoproteins, which enable fats to be carried in the blood stream, the transmembrane proteins of the mitochondrion and the chloroplast, and bacterial lipoproteins.

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