A Natural Winner: Plant-Based Diets and Statins vs Dyslipidemia Risk

In this episode, Dr Laurence Sperling talks with Dr Kim Williams about preventive cardiology nutrition intervention as a key co-therapy for tackling dyslipidemia.

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Resources

Exercise and CVD Mortality

Associations of specific types of sports and exercise with all-cause and cardiovascular-disease mortality: a cohort study of 80,306 British adults https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/10/812#T3

Diet and Dietary Patterns

The reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke study: objectives and design https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15990444/

Heart disease and stroke https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/heart-disease-stroke.htm

Effects of ketogenic diets on cardiovascular risk factors: evidence from animal and human studies https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5452247/

Dietary fats and cardiovascular disease: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000510

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(17)32252-3/fulltext

Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of coronary heart disease https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9863851/

Dietary adherence and acceptability of five different diets, including vegan and vegetarian diets, for weight loss: the New DIETs study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S147101531500080X

Guidelines and Population Studies

2019 ESC/EAS guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias: lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/1/111/5556353

TMAO

Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) predicts cardiovascular mortality in peripheral artery disease https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52082-z

Gut microbes impact stroke severity via the trimethylamine N-oxide pathway https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34139173/

Statin Adverse Effects

Effects of coenzyme Q10 on statin‐induced myopathy: an updated meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.009835

N-of-1 trial of a statin, placebo, or no treatment to assess side effects https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031173