Tag: "cholesterol"

31 Days of Health Tip #13 – Heart Tips & Fashion

bjh_blog | January 18, 2012 | Comments (2)

You may be confused by the title – heart and fashion don’t usually go together. Well, they do when it comes to one of the ways Barnes-Jewish Hospital educates our community on heart disease: February is American Heart Month and doctors are spreading the word about lowering the risk of heart disease. Anita Bhandiwad, MD, [...]

10 Reasons to drop 10 lbs

bjh_blog | January 17, 2011 | Comments (0)

So we’re on week 3 of the new year – how are your fitness and nutrition goals shaping up? Holding steady or waning? If you need some motivation for keeping on track with your weight loss and healthy eating regime, we’ve got 10 reason why you may want to stick to your healthful resolutions, courtesy [...]

Guess what your earlobe creases can tell you…

bjh_blog | December 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

Your finger length. Your sense of smell. The creases on your earlobe. All of these things, plus more, are weird little tell-tale health predictors. Read on for the weirdness… 1. Finger Length – British researchers found that women whose index fingers are shorter than their ring fingers may be twice as prone to osteoarthritis in [...]

Biomarkers discovered for fatal NPC disease

bjh_blog | December 8, 2010 | Comments (0)

Dr. Daniel Ory, a Washington University physician here at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and other researchers have discovered a biomarker that will make it easier to screen new therapies for Niemann-Pick Type C disease (NPC) and help to diagnose the disease earlier. This is a significant medical breakthrough, as this fatal disease disrupts cholesterol trafficking. The symptoms [...]

7 Essential Questions For Your Primary Physician

bjh_blog | April 12, 2010 | Comments (0)

Dr. Joe Primrose provides us with some good tips on what we should be asking our primary physicians. 1) What is my cholesterol? What is my blood pressure? Have your doctor explain total, good and bad cholesterol and blood pressure so that if you need to, you can get on a nutrition plan to help [...]