If you want to maintain healthy cholesterol levels, the first step is knowing your numbers and what they actually mean—but at first glance, that can be confusing. A total cholesterol level of 200 ...

Regulating cholesterol levels is crucial for heart health. There are two types of cholesterol (we’ll explain the difference between “good” and “bad” shortly), and if you have too much of the kind that ...

Indians face heart attacks even with normal cholesterol due to a unique lipid pattern, low HDL, high triglycerides, insulin ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband and I recently achieved the near impossible task of becoming attached to a family doctor! After many years without getting tested, our first order of business was a complete ...

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 ...

Addressing this common misconception, she explained, “Even if your cholesterol levels are normal, your risk of a heart attack ...

LDL cholesterol alone doesn’t tell the full story. Doctors explain how Apo B and Lipoprotein(a) tests can reveal hidden heart ...

High blood level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is a major causative factor of coronary heart disease. Medicine- and/or diet-mediated reduction of LDL level is known to reduce the risk ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband and I recently achieved the near impossible task of becoming attached to a family doctor! After many years without getting tested, our first order of business was a complete ...

This eggs-pert wasn’t yolk-ing around. Harvard medical student, Dr. Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month to study the effects the “fowl” diet had on his cholesterol and saw that his levels dropped ...

In a recent study published in the journal JACC Advances, researchers in the United States examined the presence of coronary atherosclerosis using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in ...