BY KAREN E. ASPRY AND CHARLES B. EATON
The new Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines released by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association last November generated wide discussion. What was not debated is the high prevalence of atherosclerosis-related death and disability in the U.S.
From University of Rochester Medica Center: University of Rochester Medical Center cardiologists are first in Upstate New York to offer a blood-cleansing therapy for people with extremely high cholesterol, including two-time heart attack survivor Bob Guesno, whose cholesterol level was nearly three times the norm.
Heart & Vascular Center doctors have introduced apheresis to filter excess cholesterol from the body, providing a potentially life-saving reduction in the risk of stroke or heart attack for people with hypercholesterolemia.
From Penn State News: UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State, has accepted an invitation to join the Science Board of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Her three-year term on the Science Board will begin on Jan. 1, 2014.
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