On 10/4, I had a lipid panel workup after a 12 hr fast and got a total
cholesterol reading of 245 which was higher than I had hoped for.  On
Thursday, at a health fair at work, I had a check with a simple finger prick
and the reading was 204.  Although I'd like to believe that, I ...

Given that the FDA approved CRESTOR, which is now under the gun in Senate
hearings, FDA investigations, and Harvard Medical School reports, what is so
special about FDA approved NIACIN, over another PILL, that makes the same
claims, and is manufactured by a reputable manufacturer?

"We have this idea we can pop a pill and solve everything".
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/1129/102_print.html
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People that smoke tend to be less obese...
People that smoke tend to be less likely to get Alztimer's(mis-spelt) disease...
Any scientific base on that?
FP

I am 37 with a family history of CVD. My father died when he was 55
(first attack). Brothers had heart attacks when they were 44 and 45
but survived. I was diagnosed with Reiter's syndrome 8 years back and
the doctor noticed elevated cholesterol and triglyceride levels. My

I have searched and found a lot of stuff on this but i just wanted to
share with you all what has been going on the past few days. To start
things off I'm a 26 male overweight with a bad diet and no excercise.
The past few days I have been getting hard heartbeats along with

Trust a marketing exec to be an industry first to jump ship. Apparently
he wrote a favourable extemporaneous review of Angell's book on the
Amazon.com site, and hasn't looked back since, as the saying goes.
Snicker.

Dose prescribed by Doctor: 1000mg Niaspan daily at the cost of 90 tabs for
$180 at Drugstore.com and higher at Walgreens.
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http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo1.jhtml?id=14112

For the past two years, I have been having chronic daily tension
headaches and very labile hypertension.  I have my own (Omron 705CP)
auto inflation blood pressure measuring instrument, so I take my BP a
few times a day.  After two years of journaling the headaches, BP,

it is short time i have been implanted a pacemaker.
i like mountains, trekking and crosscountry skiing.
i could not discuss fully with my doctor, as at the moment of surgery
i had other problems, as you can imagine.

Yesterday I saw a program on C-SPAN which discussed ways of lowering
medical costs. Of course they talked about lawsuit abuse. They also talked
about innovative ways of providing health care. One such way mentioned was
e-mail correspondence. The problem with that, a few attested, ...

My GP took me off Atenolol and put me on 25mg of Hydrochlorot 2 days
ago. My pulse rate has skyrocketed from around 70 to the 130's!!! Is
this just my body adjusting to the change in meds or is something
going wrong here??

I was told today that there has been some evidence that drinking a
certain amount of coffee each day increases the chance of arteries
becoming inflammed. Has anyone else heard about this?
How much coffee is considered a risk?

If someone comes in to the emergency ward with all the symptoms
of clogged arteries, but he has no money, will he still be eligible
for open heart surgery  ??
liaM

Heart disease is hereditary. That is generally accepted.
However......
High cholsterlol, weight, smoking, lack of excercise etc have nothing to do
with increasing the risk.