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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"blood cholesterol"”.
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A test of two educational strategies for lowering blood cholesterol at the worksite
… educational strategies for lowering elevated blood cholesterol by modifying the diet. Initially three hundred and twenty-eight employees were weighed and tested for elevated total blood cholesterol via a finger-stick procedure using a Reflotron. Two hundred of these employees had elevated …
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Dietary knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of individuals with diagnosed hypercholesterolemia
… compliance with dietary guidelines for lowering blood cholesterol in patients with diagnosed hypercholesterolemia and to identify predictors of good compliance based on knowledge, attitudinal and socio-demographic characteristics. This report presents data obtained from a self-administered …
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The effects of dietary protein source on the development of cholesterol metabolism
… regarding the effects of dietary protein on blood lipids in adult humans and animals; however, little is known of the action that protein source may have on cholesterol levels in infants. The research of this thesis addresses the following questions; (1) do infant formula proteins affect …
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Factors Associated With the Provision of Coronary Heart Disease Preventive CareServices
… The primary preventive care measures include blood cholesterol testing, blood pressure checks, and, diet, exercise and smoking cessation counseling. The secondary preventive measures include beta-blocker reciept after myocardial infarction (MI) and statin drug use for the treatment of high …
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An epidemiological study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in Scotland: The Scottish Heart Health Study
… the study districts from 29% to 52% in men. Mean blood pressure levels were 134/84 mmHg for men and 131/81 mmHg in women, these levels are lower than previous studies in Britain and there was a narrow range of levels across the districts. Mean levels of blood cholesterol were 6.4 mmol/l in men and …
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Serum Cholesterol of Young Cattle Grazing Bermudagrass and Fescue Pastures
… reflected in altered levels of circulating total cholesterol. Furthermore, different genotypes and various physiologic states of the animal, as well as the vegetative stages of the forage, may exaggerate or mitigate any such effects. Blood samples were obtained from 453 F1 Angus (AA), Brahman …
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THE ROLE OF NIEMANN-PICK C1-LIKE 1 (NPC1L1) PROTEIN IN CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT AND METABOLIC DISEASES
… for intestinal absorption of dietary and biliary cholesterol. Ezetimibe, by inhibiting NPC1L1 function, is widely used to lower blood cholesterol in humans. Recently, NPC1L1 deficiency or ezetimibe treatment has been shown to improve hepatic steatosis in rodents and humans without a defined …
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An exploratory study to assess food behavior outcomes of a one- time nutrition intervention event
… of nutrition counseling delivered at a local cholesterol screening clinic. It developed a method of measuring dietary habit changes conducive to a cholesterol- lowering diet. Hypercholesterolemic subjects were chosen for the study when their total blood cholesterol measured > 200 mg/dl from a …
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Delivering β-glucan via selected bakery systems : cake
… many health benefits, which include reduction in blood cholesterol and, improving insulin response. Due to its viscosity enhancing and water binding properties, β-glucan is considered as a potential fat replacer. In this thesis β-glucan from oat and barley were studied as functional ingredients in …
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Pengaruh konsentrasi starter terhadap kualitas kefir susu sapi dan manfaatnya sebagai penurun kadar kolesterol darah mencit (Mus musculus)
… in the milk for growth of microorganisms. Cholesterol disease is a disease that must be worried because cholesterol disease makes negative impacts on the body. Activities of fermented lactic acid bacteria on kefir produce competitive compound of HMG CoA so that cholesterol synthesis is …
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Non-invasive Measurement of Cholesterol in Human Blood by Impedance Technique: an Investigation by Finite Element Field Modelling
… and development of methodologies for determining cholesterol levels in human blood non-invasively by electrical impedance technique. The main part of this research is focused on the development of methodologies for numerical finite element (FE) modelling of simplified blood-cholesterol system, …
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Factors Related to Continued Exercise Participation Among Healthy Employed Adults
… included: carbon monoxide (CO) levels, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, and exercise participation. Descriptive statistics, correlations, log linear analysis, and qualitative analysis were used. Significant positive associations were between exercise success and number of times per …
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Knowledge and behaviours of Indo-Canadians about cardiovascular disease risk factors and prevention
… major cardiovascular disease risk factors: high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and smoking. There was a moderately strong (r = .34, significant at p = .05) relationship between Indo-Canadians' knowledge about cardiovascular disease risk factors and their reported risk reducing behaviours. …
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Flaxseed Lignan Metabolites Modulate Hepatocellular Cholesterol Trafficking In HepaRG
High blood cholesterol (HBC) is an important risk factor of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is associated with high morbidity and mortality worldwide. Lifestyle changes and drugs (e.g. statins) are mainly advised by practitioners to manage cholesterol; however, safer alternatives such as …
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Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Australian-Lebanese in Melbourne
… Study (NHF, 1990). The main findings were: Blood pressure and hypertension: The proportion of men and women who were hypertensive in this study increased steadily with age. 12.5% men and 7% of the women were found to have a diastolic blood pressure above 95mmHg. This is higher than the …
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Mokyklų darbuotojų gyvensenos sąsajos su širdies ir kraujagyslių sistemos ligomis /
… In addition, most of them have increased or high blood pressure, one third are not aware of their blood cholesterol levels, and more than a tenth of them have increased cholesterol levels in blood. Most people evaluate their health insufficiently good. Nearly one third of school employees are …
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Erythrocyte zinc and dietary zinc in black women
… 134 healthy, nonpregnant black women contributed blood and were interviewed to determine usual food consumption during the previous year and sociodemographic characteristics. The primary method of analysis was computation of correlation coefficients between the primary variables: dietary zinc …
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Essays on health economics : trans fat policies, commuting, physical activity, and body mass index in the US
… estimation is used to identify changes in blood cholesterol levels prior to and after implementation of a series of related policies among restaurant meal consumers and non-consumers. Individuals with higher levels of consumption were found to have healthier cholesterol levels following …
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