Zoë Harcombe

Obesity Researcher, Author The Harcombe Diet

Zoë Harcombe

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Is HDL-cholesterol bad?

June 27, 2022June 26, 2022 Zoë 4 Comments member

Executive summary * This week’s note reviews a paper, which found that very high HDL-cholesterol levels are associated with higher

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Cholesterol & Coffee

May 30, 2022June 26, 2022 Zoë 0 Comments Cholesterol, coffee, member

Executive summary * This week’s note looks at the association between coffee consumption and total cholesterol. * Coffee contains two

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

A new look at statins, LDL-Cholesterol & CVD

May 2, 2022May 4, 2022 Zoë 9 Comments Cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, statins

Executive summary * Most papers presenting the benefits of statins have been done by the Oxford Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT)

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Cholesterol Newsletter Public Health 

Rebutting the cholesterol hypothesis

June 28, 2021November 8, 2021 Zoë 10 Comments Cholesterol, heart disease, LDL, LDL-cholesterol, member

Executive summary * This note suggests a rapid rebuttal to the cholesterol hypothesis. * To get there, it goes through

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Cholesterol Heart Disease Newsletter 

Cholesterol & mortality – world graphs

June 21, 2021December 19, 2021 Zoë 4 Comments cardiovascular disease, Cholesterol, heart disease, member, mortality

Executive summary * This post shares my presentation, which was part of the Low Carb All Stars conference on the

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Cholesterol & PCSK9s – the lower the better?

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 Zoë 12 Comments LDL-cholesterol, member, meta-analysis, PCSK9 inhibitors

Executive Summary Please login to view this content Introduction This week’s study was emailed to me by the senior author,

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Cholesterol Newsletter 

Coconut oil, olive oil, butter & LDL-cholesterol

April 27, 2020May 25, 2021 Zoë 6 Comments "Trust me I'm a doctor", Butter, coconut oil, LDL-cholesterol, member, olive oil

Executive summary * This week’s note looks at a classic paper from 2018 in an attempt to see if saturated

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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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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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