Vitamin D supplementation has become commonplace and appears to be the standard of care for all patients who test low for vitamin D3 on routine lab work usually done as part of a patient's annual physical exam. In a publication in JAMA Cardiology, researchers analyzed data from over 80,000 patients, enrolled in 21 separate trials looking at vitamin D supplementation given for at least one year. They found the incidence of major adverse CV events was the same in patients tak

Although it has gotten much press already, some interesting facts about cholesterol treatment were presented last year in an update to US guidelines for cholesterol management from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. Dr's. Scott Grundy and Neil Stone, leading cardiologists in the field of cholesterol research presented a synopsis of the document in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2018. Some of the highlights include the most obvious reco