Can any agreement be reached on cholesterol lowering?

Can any agreement be reached on cholesterol lowering?

Reports in the scientific and lay press on the current evidence from epidemiological and clinical trials for the benefit of lowering blood cholesterol often appear to be at variance. In May 1993 the British Hyperlipidaemia Association held a symposium at the Royal College of Physicians' to establish where there was agreement and to produce guidelines to identify people who might live longer as ...

Can the sphenopalatine ganglion be reached by an acupuncture needle?

How Accurate Can Any Regression Procedure Be ?

Various parametric and nonparametric regression procedures have been constructed according to diierent possible characteristics of the underlying regression function. To reduce the dependence on subjective assumptions, the theme of adaptive estimation is to construct a procedure that provides an accurate estimate of the regression function for various scenarios without knowing which one describ...

Any Chemic Al Can Be Toxic

hich would you prefer to drink—a cup of caffeine or a cup of trichloroethylene? Chances are good that your response was “caffeine.” Caffeine occurs naturally in coffee, tea, and chocolate, and it is added to sodas and other types of drinks and foods. Trichloroethylene, on the other hand, is a solvent used to dissolve grease, and it is also a common ingredient in glues, paint removers, and clean...

CHOLESTEROL LOWERING EFFECT OF RHEUM RIBS IN HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC RABBITS

The effects of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Rheum ribs L. (RR) of the family polygonaceae was studied on serum cholesterol concentration in rabbits. To induce hypercholesterolemia, 0.5 g/kg/day of pure cholesterol powder was given orally to each rabbit for two weeks then cholesterol was halved and each group of animals was treated with a different regimen for another two weeks. Both t...