Scientific consensus panels going back decades established—“beyond a reasonable doubt”—that lowering LDL cholesterol reduces the risk of heart attacks. Consistent evidence “unequivocally” establishes ...

You get your cholesterol checked at your annual physical, and a few days later, you get back your results. If you’ve ever looked down the list of acronyms and felt at a loss of how to make sense of ...

If you're in midlife, your risk may be changing-even if your numbers aren't.

Despite common assumptions, maintaining a standard cholesterol reading does not fully shield individuals from heart attacks. Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos, a leading physician in preventative cardiology and ...

Almost 25 million adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, which puts them at a higher risk for a heart attack or stroke in ...

This column is the first in a series about risk factors for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), the cause of several health problems, including heart attacks — the number one cause of death ...

Tips To Manage High Cholesterol: Blood cholesterol is a fat-like substance that is made by the liver to perform important functions like making hormones, vitamins and digesting fatty foods. Whereas ...

WASHINGTON, DC — One in three children undergoing routine lipid screening in primary-care pediatric clinics have cholesterol levels considered high or borderline high, according to a new analysis [1].

Heart disease is the number one killer disease in the world. Elevated cholesterol and dyslipidemia in children and adolescents increase the risk of premature death in the mid-forties and subclinical ...

In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published in eBioMedicine, researchers examined the association between biomarkers of cholesterol homeostasis and mortality in critically ill patients.