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Announcements  Mobile Lipid Clinic Adds New NCEP Guidelines Support - 9-Feb-2005 The Mobile Lipid Clinic programs now support the NCEP ATP III guideline updates published in the July 13, 2004 issue of Circulation. Select the "Free Programs" links to download the new program versions.     Welcome to the Mobile Lipid Clinic  The Mobile Lipid ClinicTM provides free tools to assist healthcare professionals educate, track, and manage patients with lipid disorders. These tools implement the guidelines of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (Adult Treatment Panel III or ATP III) or the 10/28/03 release of the Canadian Cholesterol Guidelines (CCG). The Mobile Lipid Clinic programs run on both the PalmTM and Windows® operating systems. The handheld version allows the physician to easily input data, receive useful information about a patient's risks and goals, and develop an individual treatment program.   Latest Cardiology News  What to do if your cardiac risk is high People who have multiple risk factors for heart disease (such as smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension) often fail to get the right kind of "coaching" from... An Update on Statins and Cancer Studies in the past have shown a correlation between low LDL cholesterol levels and the risk of cancer. Whether this correlation is merely an association or a cause-and-effect relationship... Quality of Life After Stenting v. Medical Therapy The COURAGE trial, first reported in 2007, showed that patients with significant coronary artery disease and stable angina had similar outcomes (that is, a similar risk of heart attack or... Major cause of heart attack under 40? Smoking A new study shows that smoking is the major cause of heart attacks in people under 40 years of age. Read what this means - for younger smokers, and... Physical Activity and Atrial Fibrillation Data from the Cardiovascular Health Study suggests that light to moderate physical activity is associated with a lower risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in older adults. In comparing the activity levels... Vasovagal Syncope and the Inappropriate Diagnosis of Epilepsy Some patients with vasovagal syncope (simple fainting spells) have seizure-like muscle movements during their episodes of loss of consciousness - and mistakenly receive the diagnosis of epilepsy. The misdiagnosis... Antibiotic Prophylaxis Dropped For Most Patients The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have released new guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis for patients with valvular heart disease. For decades, doctors have... The Cardiac Electrical System The normal cardiac electrical system regulates both the heart rate and the heart rhythm. This article offers a brief explanation of the heart's electrical system and how it works.... Does Weight Loss Surgery Reduce Heart Disease Risk? Bariatric surgery - weight loss surgery - is being used much more commonly than in the past. Weight loss surgery usually leads to a significant loss of pounds, which... Exercise: the Elixir of Youth Ponce de Leon could have saved himself the trouble of tromping through the swamps of Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth (finding instead alligators and malaria). Instead, he...   Links  Apollo Lipids   ATP III Treatment Guidelines   Dyslipidemia.net   Framingham Heart Study   Scientific Software Tools, Inc.     Register for...  E-mailing Mobile Lipid Clinic

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