Half of patients aged 40 years or older in Canada have dyslipidemia, and prevalence among patients aged 65 years or older, men, and those with obesity or other chronic conditions is even higher, ...

Eddie Vos and Colin Rose are concerned that we overestimated the benefit of statins in women and older people in our analysis1 of the Canadian recommendations for dyslipidemia management.2 On the ...

If you have dyslipidemia, it usually means your LDL levels or your triglycerides are too high. It can also mean your HDL levels are too low. High LDL and triglyceride levels put you at a higher risk ...

Clinical practice guidelines require continual reassessment in response to new information and changes in the pattern of disease. Challenges in Canada, as in all industrialized countries, include the ...

What is Dyslipidemia or Lipid Disorders? There are two kinds of fats in the body - triglycerides and cholesterol. Triglycerides are fats that have not been used by the body and majority of it comes ...

Dyslipidemia describes atypical levels of lipids (fats) in the blood, such as high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol. The condition can be caused by genetic factors, as in primary ...