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Cholesterol
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Sending prostate cancer patients to a heart specialist won the trial on cholesterol, not on heart attacks
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer raises cardiovascular risk that nobody owns. A 2,487-patient trial across 8 countries referred half of them to a cardiologist and met its primary endpoint, almost entirely through statin prescribing.
Aug 31, 2026
Digital nudges lifted statin refills from 12% to 14%, and a second nudge worked as well as the first
Health systems send reminders constantly and rarely test them. A JAMA trial randomized 20,604 patients who had stopped refilling statins, then re-randomized everyone who ignored the first message, and found repeating beat switching channel.
Aug 31, 2026
Stroke patients who hit the cholesterol target but had not halved it still had 12% more repeat events
Stroke guidelines set an absolute cholesterol target and stop there. A Neurology analysis of 89,414 Korean patients found the size of the fall from baseline mattered independently, and only about 30% achieved a 50% reduction.
Aug 30, 2026
The Portfolio diet tracked 10% lower death risk across 513,284 people in four cohorts
A Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition analysis pooled 10 studies of the cholesterol-lowering Portfolio diet. Each step up the adherence score went with 6% less cardiovascular disease and 10% lower all-cause mortality.
Aug 26, 2026