If your last cholesterol check came back higher than you'd hoped, take a deep breath—you have options. Plenty of women want ...

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new... New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more ...

A simple cholesterol test could be the key to identifying people who are at risk of suffering heart attack and stroke, a new study suggests. More than half of British adults have high cholesterol, a ...

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a heart attack. The test at the center of that approach measures how much low ...

‘Game-changer’ drugs that tackle a previously untreatable type of bad cholesterol could arrive by next year ...

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As with any disease, it’s pretty obvious that preventing heart disease is important. But why? What are the health ramifications of it? Well, they're pretty serious ones—including mortality—and affect ...

New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more aggressive prevention and earlier treatment, including a recommendation that all adults be tested once for lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk marker ...