Hyperlipid

The 10 year follow on to the J-LIT study is out. My view and update of the original J-LIT study was that it was one of the better statin ...

Just a few comments after reading through Stan's latest dodgy paper , the one by D'Anci et al in Appetite. Here are some of my favor...

You would be forgiven for thinking that the apoB100 protein (which defines the LDL or VLDL particle) has been evolved over the past 4.5 bill...

I was interested in the post Stan put up about medium chain triglycerides and Alzheimers Disease. I particularly like the pictorial record...

Hi everyone, Hyperlipid is now getting back to a reasonable semblance of normality. I'll try to answer the comments as soon as I can. Wh...

Some semblance of posting on Hyperlipid will probably resume late next week but, in the mean time, Penelope (Squiggs' favourite chicken,...

For an absolute, all singing, all dancing excellent review of the JUPITER trial go read Sandy Szwarc over at Junkfood Science. Don't ex...

Back in the early 1900s it was patently obvious that pellagra (vitamin B3 deficiency) was a contageous disease . You have to ask exactly how...

There was a snippet on Radio 4 about the JUPTER study this morning. It was basically an ad for statins for everyone in the UK. Well, 75% of...

Well, there have been a few interesting developments in the last few days. The most interesting was being invited to lunch by Prof Ebringer....

Barry Groves has a new book out which might be worth a look. There is an interesting review in the Telegraph here which gives a little back...

Brown and Glodstein won the 1985 Nobel Prize for medicine. You can download their acceptance address as a pdf here . Their work was primaril...

My wife picked this up on the BBC news last night. Again, I think we are looking at the shrapnel of a neurological bomb (in a transgenic mo...

Just a quickie. This was forwarded to me by Gary. It just keeps bringing home to me that leptin is very interesting stuff and fructose is v...

But somewhat difficult to photograph. They certainly move faster than the camera can meter!

When you sit here with an LDL cholesterol which makes a cardiologist's trigger finger itch for a reflex prescription of lovastatin, you ...

This is a huge post, probably of very little interest to anyone, about the BSE/acinetobacter hypothesis. I'd just re iterate that, as po...

This is just a quickie as the RSPH website reshuffle (pretty well on the day of the last post) deleted Ebringer's text. It doesn't s...

This review [EDIT: the review has gone pay only and the abstract is yet to arrive on pubmed so I'll link to this when I can] was forwar...