Millets are important staples across developing countries in Asia and Africa. A previous systematic review meta-analysis showed that eating millets significantly controlled hyperlipidaemia obesity by focusing on a comparison of pre- post-intervention measurements. This study further provides the effects consumption analysing against other staple grains using difference-in-differences method, wh...

This paper highlights two cases of paediatric familial hyperlipidaemia (hypercholesterolaemia and hypertriglyceridaemia). The first case was an 11 year old Chinese boy, a "homozygous" (Type II) hypercholesterolaemic patient. He had extremely high blood cholesterol level (19.4 mmol/l), severe multiple xanthoma and abnormal resting electrocardiogram. He had repeated heart attacks and died at the ...

Nephrotic syndrome is characterised by proteinuria >3.5 g/24h, oedema, hypoalbuminaemia and hyperlipidaemia. Several glomerular diseases, either primary or secondary, may lead to nephrotic syndrome. Investigations for nephrotic syndrome include immunological and infectious evaluations. Renal biopsy is often mandatory, except in diabetes. Depending on aetiology specific treatment, often with imm...

Relatives of young patients with ischaemic heart disease have a substantially increased risk of early death from ischaemic heart disease (Slack and Evans, 1966), and family aggregations of death from ischaemic heart disease were noted especially amongst the few patients with essential hyperlipidaemia. Morris, Kagan, Pattison, Gardner, and Raffle (1966) have called attention to the value of rais...