SINCE 1959, when Albrink and Man 1 suggested that elevated serum triglyceride levels might be related to the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, several investigators 2–6 have measured the lipid ...

The significance of serum triglycerides in coronary-artery disease is reviewed elsewhere. 6 The present report is concerned with the striking frequency of hypertriglyceridemia in apparently healthy ...

Discussions about heart health often center around blood pressure and cholesterol, with factors like poor sleep, smoking, family history of heart disease, and chronic stress thrown in. However, ...

When Marjorie Denham visits patients at the Rex Heart Center, the volunteer does not have to look at her notes. She knows the information she shares by "heart." Denham has had two bypass surgeries, ...

Medically reviewed by Anisha Shah, MD Key Takeaways High triglycerides increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.Triglyceride levels can be managed through lifestyle changes and regular ...

Olezarsen decreased levels of triglycerides compared with placebo in patients with moderate hypertriglyceridemia and elevated cardiovascular risk, according to a late-breaking trial presented in a Hot ...

Hearing from your doctor that your triglyceride levels are high can be confusing news for a lot of people. There’s far less public eduction about what effect Triglycerides have on a person’s overall ...

In today’s world of hyper-wellness-awareness, we often associate the word “fat” with everything “unhealthy” — we believe, all sorts of diseases and health hazards that could derail our lives stem from ...

New Rochelle, NY, April 5, 2012—In most people, high blood levels of the fat known as triglycerides are an early warning sign of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome, but in people of African ...

The effects of atherosclerotic CVD risk factors on the associations between the combination of high triglyceride and low HDL-C levels and incident CHD and ischemic stroke are unclear. Individuals with ...

Stroke can have many causes. An atherothrombotic stroke is caused by a clot that forms from plaques that build up within blood vessels in the brain. A new study suggests that people who have this type ...

—Analysis of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from patients with varying lipid levels suggests new role for hypertriglyceridemia in CVD risk. Moderate—but not severe—hypertriglyceridemia has been shown to be ...