Hypercholesterolaemia is a risk factor of cardiovascular diseases and is therefore a major target for primary and secondary prevention.1,2 Maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle reduces cardiovascular risk.3 ‘Functional foods’ supplemented with phytosterols are advertised for the …

To assess the claim in a Cochrane review that mammographic breast cancer screening could be doing more harm than good by updating the analysis in the Forrest report, which led to screening in the United Kingdom.

To assess the claim in a Cochrane review that mammographic breast cancer screening could be doing more harm than good by updating the analysis in the Forrest report, which led to screening in the United Kingdom.

Prevalence of financial conflicts of interest among panel members producing clinical practice guidelines in Canada and United States: cross sectional study

BMJ 2011; 343 doi: 10.1136/bmj.d5621 (Published 11 October 2011) Cite this as: BMJ 2011;343:d5621

Introduction
The prevalence of financial conflicts of interest (COI) between clinicians and industry has been a topic of concern for the medical [...]

Sağlık Bakanlığı ve kardiyologlara bir soru: Yaşlanma teorilerinden biri, zamanla organizmada gelişen steroid moleküllerin azalması ise ve statinlerde hücre içinde bütün steroid oluşumları engelliyorsa, bu ilaçlar hızlı yaşlandırabilir diyebilir miyiz?

BACKGROUND
US cholesterol guidelines use original and simplified versions of the Framingham model to estimate future coronary risk and thereby classify patients into risk groups with different treatment strategies. We sought to compare risk estimates and risk group classification generated by the original, complex Framingham model and the simplified, point-based version.
METHODS

We assessed 2,543 subjects age 20–79 [...]

Bilim, artık genellikle ‘taraf olmayı’ gerektiren bir olguya dönüştüğü için, ‘bilimsel’ tartışmalarda da bazı yayınlar görülmüyor ya da gösterilmiyor. Örneğin tek parametrede kolesterol yüksekliği ve mortalite (ölüm) oranlarıyla