Low-salt diet seen acceptable to many

sharkboy submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Adults may be amenable to lowering their salt intake, particularly in the context of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, which is naturally low in salt, research shows.

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Human C-reactive protein slows atherosclerosis development in a mouse model with human-like hypercholesterolemia

jiangyun submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.pnas.org)

Increased baseline values of the acute-phase reactant C-reactive protein (CRP) are significantly associated with future cardiovascular disease, and some in vitro studies have claimed that human CRP (hCRP) has proatherogenic effects. in vivo studies in apolipoprotein E-deficient mouse models, however, have given conflicting results. We bred atherosclerosis-prone mice (Apob100/100Ldlr–/–), which have human-like hypercholesterolemia, with hCRP transgenic mice (hCRP+/0) and studied lesion development at 15, 30, 40, and 50 weeks of age

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Effect of Soy Nuts on Blood Pressure and Lipid Levels in Hypertensive, Prehypertensive, and Normotensive Postmenopausal Women

crackpot submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (archinte.ama-assn.org)

"Substituting soy nuts for nonsoy protein in a TLC diet improves BP and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in hypertensive women and BP in normotensive postmenopausal women. These findings may explain a cardioprotective effect of soy."

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