Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Cholesterol

Cholesterol Newsletter 

The British Heart Foundation and Familial Hypercholesterolemia

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Zoë 0 Comments British Heart Foundation, familial hypercholesterolemia, member

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction I’ve had the pleasure of hearing Dr David Diamond present three

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

Inclisiran – new ‘cholesterol-busting jab’

January 27, 2020August 26, 2020 Zoë 7 Comments Cholesterol, Evolocumab, inclisiran, member, PCSK9 inhibitors, repatha

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction This is the third note in a row about cholesterol, but

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

LDL-Cholesterol targets following ischemic stroke

January 20, 2020January 19, 2020 Zoë 0 Comments Cholesterol, clinical trials, LDL-cholesterol, member, stroke

Executive summary * A study was published in the NEMJ in January 2020. It reported on a clinical trial where

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Higher LDL-cholesterol & lower mortality

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 Zoë 19 Comments Cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, member, mortality

Executive summary Please login to view this content Introduction Many thanks to Dr Malcolm Kendrick for this week’s topic. Malcolm

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

The relationships between heart disease, cholesterol & dietary fat in Europe

May 6, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 6 Comments cardiovascular disease, dietary fat, heart disease, member, saturated fat

In this post we are looking at some interesting findings from the latest European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics (2017). Let’s start

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Keys, cholesterol and rabbits

April 4, 2019July 6, 2019 Zoë 5 Comments ancel keys, chicken, dietary cholesterol, rabbit

The following quotation, attributed to Ancel Keys, has been repeated quite often, but with the source for it not always

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

Cholesterol, statins, the CTSU & the Mail on Sunday

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019 Zoë 78 Comments

Before I did what I do now I worked as the HR Director at management team level for a number

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

Why cholesterol can’t cause heart disease

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Zoë 5 Comments cardiovascular disease, heart disease, LDL, member, statins

Introduction The more you examine the cholesterol-heart hypothesis, the more it doesn’t make sense. This week’s note has been inspired

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

Statins

December 10, 2018April 28, 2021 Zoë 7 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, LDL, member, statins

  (The British newspaper, “i”, published a shorter version of this article on 11th December 2018.) The headlines on 8th

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Lowering LDL

December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 Zoë 13 Comments Cholesterol, HDL, LDL, lipoproteins, member, statins, VLDL

On 10th November, 2018, the American Heart Association (AHA) published new cholesterol guidelines (Ref 1). The document is on open

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