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Cardiometabolic
Triglycerides fall a long way, HDL rises a little, and LDL barely moves — which surprises people who assumed losing weight fixes cholesterol. Here is what changes, what does not, and why your statin stays.
Cardiometabolic
Your blood pressure falls as your weight does, which is a benefit right up until the point where the dose set at your old weight becomes too much. Nobody schedules the review, and the symptom of missing it is a fall.
Cardiometabolic
SELECT was the trial that changed what these drugs are. A 20% reduction in major cardiovascular events, in people without diabetes — and a quiet argument about whether the benefit is really about weight at all.
Cardiometabolic
For years the advice to a breathless patient with a preserved ejection fraction was diuretics and a shrug. Two randomised trials have changed that, and the population they studied is a large share of the people reading this.