Knowing your blood pressure and cholesterol numbers is a great first step to mitigating your risk for cardiovascular disease. Hearing from your healthcare provider that your numbers are high can be ...

Consider adding these to your routine to support your heart health.

Oral drug can safely lower triglycerides and other blood lipids, clinical trial finds by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Some medications and supplements should not be taken together. But that's not the case for these two, which, together, may ...

Trials of a new cholesterol-lowering pill have shown promising results for people with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a genetic disorder that leads to high levels of LDL ...

A staggering 28 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol, meaning they have too many lipids (fats) in their blood. That number, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

While fish oil may benefit some people with high triglycerides, it does not work the same way for every cholesterol problem.

Whether you are working on lowering cholesterol or not, a non-diet approach can be helpful. As a Non-Diet Dietitian, my take on helping people care for themselves and support health differs from the ...

Share on Pinterest New AHA guidelines focus on earlier cholesterol screening and treatment. Image Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty Images The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart ...

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), ...