Cholesterol - the good, the bad and the combined - is essential for our overall health. It plays a key role in digesting fatty foods, making vitamin D and producing hormones amongst other things. But ...

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 ...

Your doctor hands you a cholesterol report filled with abbreviations and numbers. The test measures four key components that predict the risk of heart disease and stroke. Understanding what these ...

Cholesterol doesn’t have the same clout as plenty of other heart-related biomarkers. You can’t check the amount of cholesterol (a.k.a. a waxy fat made by your liver) floating in your blood using a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A routine blood test taken by millions in the U.S. each year to measure "bad" cholesterol is not the best measure to guide treatment and prevent heart attacks and strokes, suggests a new Northwestern ...

There are new guidelines on managing cholesterol from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. And one new recommendation is that every adult should get a cholesterol ...

Off-the-shelf health tests for issues such as high cholesterol, vitamin deficiency, fertility and prostate problems may not be fit for purpose, new research has found. A team from the University of ...