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...that diabetes patients who had not suffered a heart attack had the same poor health profile as those who had - findings that prompted the American Diabetes Association to recommend heart-disease screening for all diabetes patients with two or more additional risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol or hypertension, even in the absence of symptoms. "That study really changed the field," says Wackers, "and told us we cannot miss the risk of heart disease and should start testing all of our patients...
...following afternoon, McGrath corralled three of his buddies and drove 35 miles from his New York City home to the nearest Denny's, in Avenel, N.J. They all downed their meals, two of them free, and considered themselves hooked. "It's amazing," McGrath said after jacking up his cholesterol. "It's cheap, and it's good." His one wish? That Denny's open a restaurant in Queens...
...most people, fat is a burden. It doesn't really matter whether it appears as cellulite on our thighs or cholesterol in our veins - we just don't want...
...cholesterol numbers are drawn from an advertisement for the statin Zocor - a drug that the authors are careful not to dismiss out of hand, since it can indeed save lives, just not as many as its makers would like you to believe. The ad openly touts the 42% figure, which is based on a study in which 111 out of 2,221 people with heart disease who used Zocor later died of a heart attack. In a control group of heart patients who used a placebo, 189 out of 2,223 died. So the fact is there were indeed...
...Another, subtler problem can be the difference between what are known as surrogate outcomes and patient outcomes. A new drug or treatment may reliably lower cholesterol, say, or reduce the size of a tumor - these are surrogate outcomes - and the drug-maker would call that a success. But the ultimate goal of treatment isn't simply to give you lab results you can boast about, it's to make you feel better and live longer; those are the patient outcomes. Sometimes though, good surrogate outcomes don't lead to good patient outcomes. Hormone replacement therapy, for example, raises good cholesterol...