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...suggest that elevated urate levels may delay the progression of Parkinson’s disease, according to Weisskopf. Urate also has the potential to become “the first established biomarker of the disease” to gauge Parkinson’s in the way that High-density lipoprotein cholesterol—better known as the “good” cholesterol—is used as a measure of cardiac health, Weisskopf said...
...make things more complicated, researchers discovered that cholesterol travels around the body in two major forms: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the kind that does most of the damage, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which actually seems to keep arteries clean. Beyond that, another class of fats, known as triglycerides, also circulates in the blood, doing more or less the same kind of damage...
...triglycerides aren't quite the whole story either. Over the past few years, researchers have identified yet another form of fat that could rightly be labeled Bad Cholesterol II. Called lipoprotein (a), or Lp(a), it behaves like LDL in the body. But because Lp(a) levels have more to do with your genes than your diet, they can't easily be controlled. At best, doctors think they can use Lp(a) screening to find people who should be working extra hard to reduce their other heart-attack risks...
Every year since 1900, with only one exception (1918, when the influenza epidemic claimed more lives), heart disease has had the dubious honor of being the U.S.'s leading killer. Lowering cholesterol levels, specifically the low-density lipoproteins (LDL) that make meats and butter-laden desserts so irresistible to the palate but so hazardous to the heart, was the first step to slowing down the disease. But now physicians are shifting their attention to LDL's do-good partner, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), encouraged by early evidence suggesting it can not only clean out fatty deposits within blood-vessel walls...
...revised guidelines focus on low-density lipoprotein (LDL)--the so-called bad cholesterol. Four years ago, the NCEP recommendations were that patients at high risk of heart attack--including those who have diabetes or already have heart disease--try to get their LDL level under 100 mg/dL. But the guidelines allowed some wiggle room--up to 129 mg/dL. The latest update eliminates the wiggle room for high-risk patients...