Western Europe - Watching Your Cholesterol

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two-years of after-school physical activity helped lessen the number of overweight and obese fourth- and fifth-grade girls, but not boys, and led to declines in cholesterol levels in girls and boys, report researchers from Spain. This suggests ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice, scientists said on Thursday. German researchers said ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Western Europeans spend an estimated 10.5 billion euros ($14.3 billion) a year on illicitly sourced medicines, many of them counterfeit, according to a Pfizer-sponsored survey published on Tuesday. Germans and Italians buy the most prescription-only drugs without a prescription, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Encouraging more patients to continue taking their prescribed cholesterol drugs would stave off twice as many stroke and heart attack deaths as giving the drugs to a wider range of people, scientists said on Tuesday. A study by British ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taking too much selenium, an essential mineral touted for immune boosting and anti-cancer benefits, could increase cholesterol levels by 10 percent and, as a result, raise the risk of heart disease, a new study suggests. The findings, ...

The number of patients who have lowered their "bad" cholesterol to the advised level has nearly doubled in nine countries over the last decade, according to a study released Monday. The research, published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation, said patients ...

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Statins, the drugs already prescribed to people with high cholesterol, could be offered to many more who have no obvious risk of heart disease following the results of a trial published yesterday. The trial, codenamed Jupiter, was designed to find out whether ...

Merck expands international cholesterol drug study to get faster results, shot at approvalMerck &amp;amp; Co. is expanding an already-large study of an experimental cholesterol drug — rejected this spring by U.S. regulators — to get results sooner so it can move up ...

Children as young as eight with high cholesterol levels should be put on statins to reduce their risk of heart disease, doctors in the United States have recommended. The move by the American Academy of Paediatrics has triggered a furore, because there ...

Topic: Western Europe

After-school exercise helps overweight girls

Doctors fail to cut cholesterol enough

Europeans spend billions on fake medicines: survey

Proper drug-taking would greatly cut heart risks

Selenium supplementation may boost cholesterol

Patients cutting cholesterol double in decade

Lower Cholesterol Levels Can Kill You

Drug could save thousands from heart attacks

Merck expands cholesterol study for faster results

Heart disease: US doctors back statins for 8-year-olds

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