If you are concerned about your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, you’ll usually get a specific blood test to look at your cholesterol levels to see where things stand. At least, that’s how ...

While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one-third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the past five years. Getting your cholesterol tested – ...

High cholesterol has mostly been seen as a problem in middle age. But doctors are now warning that unhealthy cholesterol levels, fatty liver and poor metabolic health are increasingly showing up in ...

There is something unsettling about illnesses that stay quiet for years. High cholesterol is one of them. It does not usually ...

Cholesterol is often overlooked by younger adults, but it can cause health problems at any age, including raising the risk of heart disease, heart attack and st ...

Very high levels are even more dangerous than better-known risks for heart-attack and stroke. “In individuals who don’t have heart disease, it seems it is equivalent to having two other modifiable ...

Healthy runners probably don’t lend much thought to cholesterol numbers. But more than 12 percent of American adults over the age of 20 have high cholesterol (levels greater than 240 mg/dL), according ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry! But it’s also easy to overdo it, which can spike your “bad” LDL cholesterol. That ...

A one-time gene-editing infusion kept cholesterol levels low for a year, offering a potential new approach to preventing ...

While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one-third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the past five years. Getting your cholesterol tested — ...