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

Every day, your liver assembles billions of tiny cholesterol-carrying particles and ships them into your blood. How many it ...

New recommendations suggest that some people should start trying to lower their cholesterol as early as age 30. By Nina Agrawal Your cholesterol levels can affect your risk of heart disease and stroke ...

High cholesterol may trigger inflammation and vice versa. Certain lifestyle measures, such as dietary changes, may help reduce and prevent both high cholesterol and inflammation. Cholesterol is a type ...

Once upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging “bad” sort and an artery-clearing “good” one. The difference was not in the ...

My goal in this letter is to begin to reconcile one of the most divisive and important debates in healthcare and nutrition today: the role of cholesterol in heart disease.

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a heart attack. The test at the center of that approach measures how much low ...

Kinases that shuttle cholesterol within tumor cells help fuel growth. Blocking these enzymes may starve cancer cells, ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been ...

Cholesterol is a waxy substance in your blood. Your body needs cholesterol to build healthy cells. Having too much cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease. When you have high cholesterol, ...