National Center for Health Research reviews the cholesterol medications currently on the market and provides a comprehensive guide to cholesterol and choosing your cholesterol medication.
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Are Fish Oil Supplements Good for Heart Health?
If you have had a heart attack or stroke, fish oil supplements do little to protect you from having another one or dying from one.
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Air pollution is a hot topic in the media. Here is what you need to know about the causes of air pollution and how it affects the health of adults and children.
Read More »NCHR Comments to USPSTF on Non-traditional Screening Methods for Heart Disease
February 12, 2018, USPSTF. We agree with the USPSTF that current evidence is insufficient to assess potential benefits and harms of adding the ankle-brachial index (ABI), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), or coronary artery calcification (CAC) score to the traditional risk assessments for CVD.
Read More »NCHR Comments on USPSTF Draft Screening Recommendations for Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD)
USPSTF, February 12, 2018. In order to more widely recommend ABI, we need more studies directly evaluating both the efficacy and harms. Most importantly, we encourage the USPSTF to review studies that analyze the accuracy of ABI and its effect on improving health outcomes in asymptomatic PAD patients.
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