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Guidelines and Calculators - National Cholesterol Education Program
This resource from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute includes their 2002 ATP III cholesterol guidelines, online risk calculators, and a Palm-compatible tool that calculates cardiovascular risk and displays cholesterol treatment recommendations.
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Lowering Cholesterol - American Academy of Family Physicians
An excellent patient resource on understanding cholesterol, appropriate dietary changes, and an overview of medications.
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Patient Resources - National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
This NIH Web site provides patients several interactive tools and summaries related to cholesterol. Includes information in Spanish.
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Lipid Disorders - MedLine Plus
Reliable information from MedLine Plus that concisely covers the basics of what patients should know about lipids disorders and their management.
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Cholesterol Information - American Heart Association
This site for patients explains the importance of cholesterol for cardiovascular health, and addresses issues such as the difference between LDL and HDL cholesterol. Also includes nutrition tips and online risk assessment tools.
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Heart to Heart Risk Calculator - Med-Decisions.com
An online and Palm-compatible tool that calculates an individual's risk for coronary heart disease events. Unlike other similar tools, this one shows the expected risk reduction for interventions such as smoking cessation and cholesterol reduction.
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The Nutrition Source - Harvard School of Public Health
A service of the Harvard School of Public Health that attempts to demystify fundamental concepts in nutritional science. The website has well-referenced summaries on topics including vitamins, carbohydrates, fiber, fat and cholesterol.
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Atkins Diet Alert - Physicians for Responsible Medicine
This site gives one perspective on the Atkins Diet debate. It is designed to be "a resource for physicians and laypeople with questions and concerns about high-protein diets." For the pro-Atkins perspective, visit the commercial site: www.atkins.com.
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Cholesterol Screening for Women - AHRQ
This site from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality summarizes an evidence-based approach to cholesterol screening in women.
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Trans Fatty Acids and Coronary Heart Disease - Harvard School of Public Health
A useful summary of the known risks of trans fatty acids, which appear to confer more risk for coronary heart disease than saturated fats. Includes a discussion of the new FDA regulation that will require food manufacturers to include trans fat content on food labels.
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Trans Fatty Acids, Butter and Margarine - American Heart Association
A summary from the AHA about the relative risks of trans fatty acids (margarine) and saturated fats (butter). Recent evidence suggests trans fats may confer more risk for coronary heart disease than saturated fats.
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Heart Healthy Lifestyle Program by Dean Ornish - Article on WebMD
Dean Ornish discusses his claims about lifestyle changes affecting heart health.
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LDL Receptor Gene Mutation Database
For clinicians interested in the research aspects of familial hypercholesterolemia, this Web site has a downloadable LDL-R database including information about ethnic predominance.
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