Suchergebnisse - "Lee, Thomas H"

PubPharm (9)

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Ask the doctor. I'm 80, and I exercise or bike for an hour and a half almost every day and eat a healthy diet. I recently had a blood lipid assessment, and my HDL was 70 and my LDL was 42, But my internist wrote me saying that my LDL was too low and that I should cut my dose of atorvastatin from 40 mg to 20 mg a day. I also take 2,000 mg of niacin daily. Is there general agreement that one's LDL should not go below a certain point? Is mine too low?

enthalten in: Harvard health letter | 2012

von Lee, T.

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How to help your heart

enthalten in: Newsweek | 2007

von Lee, T.

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Ask the doctor. My doctor is focused on keeping my LDL in a good range, but she doesn't seem too concerned that my HDL is on the low side. Shouldn't it get the same attention?

enthalten in: Harvard heart letter : from Harvard Medical School | 2005

von Lee, T.

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Ask the doctor. Can I lower my LDL level by raising my triglycerides?

enthalten in: Harvard heart letter : from Harvard Medical School | 2004

von Lee, T.

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Getting to the heart of the question

enthalten in: Harvard health letter | 2004

von Lee, T.

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By the way, doctor. My husband's total cholesterol was 71 for a few months. he cut back on his statin and now it's in the low 90s. His HDL is 50 and his LDL in the 40s. Should we be worried about such low levels?

enthalten in: Harvard health letter | 2003

von Lee, T.

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By the way, doctor. I just got my cholesterol checked, and I'm confused. LDL is bad and HDL is good, so how can they be combined into an overall number that makes any sense? Isn't that like an accountant mixing debits with credits? Wouldn't it make more sense to have a net cholesterol number (HDL minus LDL), or perhaps a ratio?

enthalten in: Harvard health letter | 2003

von Lee, T.

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Ask the doctor. At age 62 I'm a bit overweight and have diabetes. I take a statin, and my LDL cholesterol is good (84 mg/dL). But my HDL is low (30 mg/dL) and my triglycerides are above 300 mg/dL. Are high triglycerides a problem?

enthalten in: Harvard heart letter : from Harvard Medical School | 2003

von Lee, T.

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By the way, doctor. As a regular reader of your newsletter, I have a pretty good idea of what a healthy person's cholesterol and triglyceride levels should be. But last year, I had a couple of tests, and the results were completely different. According to the first, my triglycerides were 285, my HDL 31, and my LDL 109. Eight months later, the same measurements came in at 175, 44, and 109. What could cause such a big swing? Is it something I should be worried about?

enthalten in: Harvard health letter | 2002

von Lee, T.

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