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Cholesterol is biosynthesized in the liver trans ported throughout the body to be used in a va riety of ways and returned to the liver where it serves as the biosynthetic precursor to other steroids But cholesterol is a lipid and isn t soluble in water How can it move through the blood if it doesn t dis solve in if The answer is that it doesn t dissolve but IS instead carried through the blood and tissues as part of a lipoprotein (lipid + protein = lipoprotein) The proteins that carry cholesterol from the liver are called low density lipoproteins or LDLs those that return it to the liver are the high-density lipoproteins or HDLs If too much cholesterol is being transported by LDL or too little by HDL the extra cholesterol builds up on the walls of the arteries caus mg atherosclerosis A thorough physical examination nowadays measures not only total cholesterol con centration but also the distribution between LDL and HDL cholesterol An elevated level of LDL cholesterol IS a risk factor for heart disease LDL cholesterol is bad cholesterol HDLs on the other hand remove excess cholesterol and are protective HDL cholesterol IS good cholesterol... 

The role of atopy in anaphylaxis has not completely been resolved. On the one hand there is for example no evidence of a higher risk of severe reactions in venom-allergic patients. A recent study by Sturm et al. [38] indicated that patients with high total IgE levels predominantly developed mild to moderate reactions. By contrast, atopy may increase the risk and severity of systemic reactions in beekeepers and their family numbers [39]. On the other hand, atopy and in particular allergic asthma are risk factors for food allergy and therefore are also important risk factors for food-induced anaphylaxis. This is most likely also true for exercise-induced anaphylaxis, but also non-IgE-dependent anaphylaxis induced by NSAIDs or contrast media. 

Given that VTE can be debilitating or fatal, it is important to treat it quickly and aggressively.8 On the other hand, because major bleeding induced by antithrombotic drugs can be equally harmful, it is important to avoid treatment when the diagnosis is not reasonably certain. Assessment of the patient s status should focus on the search for risk factors in the patient s medical history... 

Osteoarthritis proves to be a more complex disease than autoimmune disease, with multiple variable manifestations like knee, hip, hand, DIP, elbow, shoulder, and spinal joints OA, which have different risk factors. The etiology of OA is multifactorial with inflammatory, metabolic and mechanical causes. A number of personal and environmental risk factors, such as obesity, occupation, and trauma, may initiate various pathological pathways. OA comprises degeneration of articular cartilage together with changes in subchondral bone of the joint margins and mild intraarticular inflammation. 

We are not certain which comorbid risk factors cause mortality independent of sleep effects, and therefore, we cannot be certain whether we controlled too much or too little for comorbidities. For example, since short sleep or long sleep may cause a person to be sick at present or to get little exercise or to have heart disease (17), diabetes (18), etc., controlling for these possible mediating variables may have incorrectly minimized the hazards associated with sleep durations. This would be overcontrol. The hazard ratios for participants who were rather healthy at the time of the initial questionnaires were unlikely to be overcontrolled for initial illness. Since the 32-covariate models and the hazard ratios for initially healthy participants were similar, this similarity reduced concern that the 32-covariate models were overcontrolled. On the other hand, there may have been residual confounding processes that caused both short or long sleep and early death that we could not adequately control in the CPSII data set, either because available control variables did not adequately measure the confound or because the disease did not yet manifest itself. Depression, sleep apnea, and dysregulation of cytokines are plausible confounders that were not adequately controlled. It may be impossible to be confident that all conceivable confounds are adequately controlled in epidemiological studies of sleep. 

It has been reported that about 12% of the 63 million children under the age of 18 in the United States suffer from one or more mental disorders, and exposure to toxic substances before or after birth has been identified as one of the several risk factors that appear to make certain children vulnerable to these disorders. Reports have also indicated that fetuses and children are more vulnerable to the effects of certain neurotoxic substances than are adults. Children exposed to a mix of pesticides, including organophosphates, showed diminished short-term memory and disturbed hand-eye coordination and drawing ability, whereas unexposed children of the same tribe showed normal development. Preschool children from agricultural communities in the United States showed poorer performance on motor speed and latency than did those of urban communities. ... 

Of particular interest are the results of the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study in which the relationship between the observed incidence of coronary heart disease events was compared with that predicted from an equation that incorporates cholesterol levels, smoking history, diabetes, blood pressure, and other risk factors that were known at the time (38). These results, shown in Figure 17.5, indicate that the predicted and observed event rates in patients who received placebo were similar. On the other hand, coronary event rates in pravastatin-treated patients were consistently lower than were... 

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