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Members in the News
Nanette K. Wenger, MD, professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2013 National Lipid Association (NLA) Honorary Lifetime Member Award. Emory News - June 24, 2013
By Jennifer Brown, PhD, Everyday Health Staff Writer September is cholesterol awareness month, and a good time to get your cholesterol levels checked. If your bad cholesterol, LDL, is below 100 mg/dL and your good cholesterol, HDL, is above 40 mg/dL for... more
By Jennifer J Brown, PhD, Everyday Health Staff Writer Matt Ito, PharmD, is the president of the National Lipid Association for a very good reason. He has inherited a dangerously high cholesterol condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH, which affects more than 600,000... more
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,... more
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... more
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... more
A new study finds that about a third of children, ages 9 to 11, have cholesterol levels considered borderline or high. Nearly one-third of children may have worrisome levels of cholesterol, putting them at risk for cardiovascular problems decades later, according to a new study. The study of... more
From University of Miami: For Carl E. Orringer, M.D., the newest faculty member in the Cardiovascular Division, the move from Cleveland to Miami is a homecoming. Orringer is a triple ’Cane, with a B.A. in chemistry (1970), an M.D. (1974) and a residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital (1977).... more
Increasing obesity is one the most important healthcare problems in United States and has become a major focus of recent government initiatives to improve the health of the country. The serious effects of obesity are even greater in Indians and other South Asians especially in the case of obesity... more
By Carol Kirkpatrick, PhD, RDN, LDN, CLS, FNLA; Geeta Sikand, MA, RDN, FAND, CLS, CDE, FNLA; Ralph LaForge, MSc, CLS, FNLA In September, the National Lipid Association released its new Recommendations for Patient-Centered for Dyslipidemia Management – Part 2. These recommendations... more