{"id":19723,"date":"2016-11-06T11:33:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T06:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/?p=19723"},"modified":"2018-07-21T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T10:40:11","slug":"raising-hdl-levels-cannot-reduce-heart-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/raising-hdl-levels-cannot-reduce-heart-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising HDL Levels Alone May Not Reduce The Risk to Heart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18971 size-full\" title=\"Raising Good Cholesterol Levels Alone May Not Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/New.jpg\" alt=\"image showing 1 minute health news for HDL levels\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Surprisingly, raising the levels of HDL (good cholesterol) alone may not be protective against lowering\u00a0risk of heart disease, suggests a recent study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-In the study conducted in Ontario Canada, researchers studied about <strong>631,000 individuals without previous cardiovascular conditions\u00a0<\/strong>through the CANHEART cohort, a research database that links together multiple individual-level population-based data sets on sociodemographics, cardiac risk factors and co-morbidities, medications, etc.<\/p>\n<p>-The individuals were \u00a0aged between 40-105 years were divided into groups based on their HDL levels.<\/p>\n<p>-The researchers examined the relationship between HDL cholesterol levels and other risk factors for heart diseases, existing illnesses, medications that people were taking, and socioeconomic status, among others factors.<\/p>\n<p>-They also compared the HDL levels of healthier people to the HDL levels of people with poorer health habits, such as smoking.<\/p>\n<p>-Researchers found that <strong>low and very high levels of HDL were associated with a higher risk of dying from heart disease, cancer and other causes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Researchers said they are unsure why very high levels of HDL increased levels of non-cardiovascular related death, but other studies have suggested this could be related to increased alcohol intake.<\/p>\n<p>-In conclusion, researchers said <strong>this study casts doubt on HDL being used as an independent risk factor for heart disease<\/strong> or for raising HDL levels to be used by itself as an intervention to reduce the risk of dying from heart disease.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0Journal of the American College of Cardiology\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1mg.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/New.jpg\" alt=\"1mg\" width=\"630\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75,77,124,153],"class_list":["post-19723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1mg-news","tag-cardiac","tag-cardiovascular-disorders","tag-healthy-eating-vitamins-minerals-nutrients","tag-mind-body"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raising HDL Levels Alone May Not Reduce The Risk to Heart! - Tata 1mg Capsules<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Raising good cholesterol (HDL) cannot reduce the risk of heart diseases alone. 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