by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 11, 2023 | Diabetes
Statins may raise your blood sugar levels, but your doctor is still likely to recommended them if you have risk factors for heart attacks or strokes. Reviews of many studies show that statins can raise blood sugar levels, which increases risk for diabetes and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 13, 2023 | Heart Health
It is established that having a high bad LDL cholesterol increases your chances of suffering a heart attack (Int J Environ Res Public Health, Jul, 2022;19(14):8272; Lancet, Nov 21, 2020;396(10263):1644-1652) and that reducing high levels of LDL helps to prevent heart...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 30, 2023 | Heart Health
Doctors try to predict and prevent heart attacks by measuring blood levels of LDL cholesterol and treating you if they are too high. Statins and PSK9 inhibitors are among the most effective drugs used to lower high LDL cholesterol. Almost half of all North American...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 18, 2023 | Heart Health
An analysis of three large studies of people taking statins found that a blood test for inflammation levels was better than tests of cholesterol levels for predicting future heart attacks (Lancet, March 06, 2023). More than 30,000 participants in the PROMINENT,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 17, 2022 | Heart Health
A study of supplements that claim to lower cholesterol followed 199 patients at the Cleveland Clinic for 28 days. Participants were given either a supplement (fish oil pills, red yeast rice, cinnamon, garlic, turmeric or plant sterols), a statin drug (rosuvastatin,...
