Your body needs cholesterol to make hormones and other substances, but having too much of it in your blood is linked to higher risks of heart disease and stroke. High cholesterol has no symptoms; the only way to find out whether your cholesterol level is high is by having a blood test. A variety of […]
The American Journal of Medicine Carlos A. Dujovne, MD Abstract Red yeast rice, a commercially available food supplement known to reduce serum cholesterol, has been repeatedly advocated as alternative therapy for hypercholesterolemic patients that refuse statins, cannot tolerate statin therapy’s side effects, or request a “naturopathic” medicine. Red yeast rice contains a fungus (Monascus purpureus), […]
Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:50 By Erik Goldman If you’re recommending Red Yeast Rice supplements to patients as a natural alternative for cutting CVD risk, you may be unwittingly guiding them to ineffective products, and simultaneously compromising your clinical credibility. This is all thanks to a regulatory gray zone that permits supplement companies to market […]
“Twelve + 1”? I know that sounds odd, but I have my reason to single one of the natural alternatives, two scientists from the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand list in their 2016 review “A Review of the Efficacy, Safety, and Clinical Implications of Naturally Derived Dietary Supplements for Dyslipidemia”, right from the start: red yeast rice […]
Posted on January 13, 2016 by Cleveland HeartLab Since statins are often discontinued due to tolerability problems, a study of dyslipidemic patients (n=100) post percutaneous coronary intervention by Marazzi and colleagues published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology sought to determine the value of a combination of nutraceuticals (policosanol, folic acid, red […]
A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial David J. Becker, MD, Benjamin French, PhD, Patti B. Morris, RD, Erin Silvent, BA, Ram Y. Gordon, MD Disclosures Am Heart J. 2013;166(1):187-196. Abstract Background Many patients who refuse or cannot tolerate statin drugs choose alternative therapies for lipid lowering. Objectives This study aimed to determine the lipid-lowering effects of […]
Tolerability of Red Yeast Rice (2,400 mg Twice Daily) Versus Pravastatin (20 mg Twice Daily) in Patients With Previous Statin Intolerance Steven C. Halbert, MD The American Journal of Cardiology Volume 105, Issue 2, 15 January 2010, Pages 198–204 Currently, no consensus has been reached regarding the management of hyperlipidemia in patients who develop statin-associated […]