Being told that you have elevated cholesterol can feel like a letdown on an otherwise good bill of health. But you aren’t alone—according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...

High cholesterol is a common problem, but there are some straightforward steps you can take to lower it. (Getty Images) High cholesterol is known as the “silent killer” because there are no outward ...

"Low HDL cholesterol levels are the most prevalent lipid abnormality in people who have had heart attacks - much more common than elevated LDL cholesterol levels," says Thomas Bersot, MD, PhD.

FARGO — Local doctors are urging everyone this month to monitor their blood pressure and cholesterol levels to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. It’s American Heart Month. Dr. Jason Go with ...

Untreated vision loss and high LDL cholesterol have been added as two new potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in a report released Wednesday by the Lancet Commission. These new additions ...

Cholesterol often gets a bad rap, but its presence isn’t inherently bad—our bodies need this molecule to build cells and make hormones. [1] “Cholesterol is a fatty substance in the blood that is ...

A nurse-led strategy for people living with HIV was able to reduce both blood pressure and cholesterol in a 12-month period. A nurse-led strategy, EXTRA-CVD, was shown to be effective in reducing both ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, nearly 94 million U.S. adults age 20 or older have total cholesterol level higher than 200 mg/dL. Twenty-eight million adults in the United ...

Peter Salgo, MD: Let’s take a look, now, at some of our goals. There are people whose cholesterols are too high. We define what too high is, and we should, by the way. What is your goal in lipid ...

HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, appears to influence treatment decisions around statin therapy, according to an analysis in JACC: Advances. Compared with people who have normal HDL-cholesterol ...

Measuring the number of years an individual is exposed to high LDL-cholesterol levels can better predict cardiovascular events than a static measure of LDL cholesterol levels in early middle age, ...