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*284Allowing discrimination based on the contagious effects of a physical impairment would be inconsistent with the basic purpose of 504, which is to ensure that handicapped individuals are not denied jobs or other benefits because of the prejudiced attitudes or the ignorance of others. By amending the definition of "handicapped individual" to include not only those who are actually physically impaired, but also those who are regarded as impaired and who, as a result, are substantially limited in a major life activity, Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.^[11]Few aspects of a handicap give rise to the same level of public fear and misapprehension as contagiousness.^[12]Even those who suffer or have recovered from such noninfectious diseases as epilepsy or cancer have faced discrimination based on the irrational fear that they might be contagious.^[13]The Act is

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Question 1

In the diet of hypercholesterolaemic patients, should milk and other

dairy products be restricted?

Question 2

Should a 20-year-old, either male or female, with a blood cholesterol

level of 300 mg/dL and with hypercholesterolaemic parents, be treated?

Question 3

Why are lipid-lowering drugs (statins) administered at bed time?

Question 4

What is the best statin now and what is your opinion about Crestor 10 mg

(rosuvastatin) and Lescol XL (fluvastatin sodium)?

Question 5

How long do statins take to achieve their maximum benefit?

Question 6

If, after 4 months of taking simvastatin (20 mg daily), a patient with

hyperlipidaemia and hypertension has an increased aspartate transferase

(AST) of up to 60 U/L, with a normal alanine transferase (ALT), what

action should I take?

Question 7

How long should the statins be continued once the lipid profile returns to

normal? Can we stop the statins once normal levels are attained and then

continue with diet modification?

Question 8

What is the exact mechanism of corneal arcus? What is its clinical

significance? What is its relationship to hyperlipidaemia? Is there any

effective treatment in medicine or alternative medicine to remove

corneal arcus?

Question 9

What is the best drug to be added to a statin in a case of familial

hypercholesterolaemia not responding to lifestyle and diet modification

plus a statin?

Question 10

Can diabetes mellitus cause Horner's syndrome? If so, how?516019