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...lovastatin might do the job. Working with Grundy and David Bilheimer, another UTHSCD researcher, they tried it in 1982 on six patients. Within a few weeks, blood-cholesterol levels had dropped from an average of 350 to 250. Furthermore, the drug actually boosted the amount of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), a natural substance that seems to scavenge excess cholesterol out of the bloodstream. "That study really opened people's eyes," recalls Grundy...
...second filters the plasma through a jar of porous beads coated with an antibody that traps LDL. The beauty of the procedure, says its developer, German Biochemist Wilhelm Stoffel, is that "the antibody picks out only LDL." Other important blood components, including a valuable form of cholesterol called HDL (high-density lipoprotein), are all returned to the patient. In fact, according to a study published this week by the Rogosin group, this "good" cholesterol actually rises in patients treated with LDL-pheresis...
...learned about cholesterol. Plaques are more likely to form when blood cholesterol is high, and particularly when the cholesterol takes the form known as "low-density lipoprotein" (LDL). By lowering the levels of cholesterol in the blood or by ensuring that most of it occurs as "high density lipoprotein" (HDL), the risk of heart attack can be substantially reduced. Although, several drugs have been developed to improve blood cholesterol levels, most have been associated with severe side effects...
Alderman and his colleagues gave patients up to two grams of niacin--more than a hundred times the recommended daily allowance of the vitamin--and found that blood cholesterol improved in 90 percent of the cases. The drug was particularly effective at raising levels of HDL (the type of cholesterol that is protective against heart disease), but it also lowered total cholesterol levels in patients taking higher doses of the drug. In general, the researchers reported, the more niacin a subject took, the greater was his improvement...
...study of heart patients, they found that taking eight teaspoons of cod liver oil every day for six weeks produced several changes associated with cardiovascular health. The treatment raised blood concentrations of HDL cholesterol, lowerered the rate of blood clotting, and increased production of chemicals which cause dilation of blood vessels, making arteries such as those that supply the heart less likely to get blocked...