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 ...

To get a picture of how much cholesterol you have circulating in your system that could deposit on your blood vessel walls and raise the risk for a heart attack or other event, blood tests are done to ...

Not all cholesterol is bad! High-density lipoprotein (HDL), or “good cholesterol,” acts like the cleanup crew, sweeping away ...

Whether significant reductions in LDL cholesterol and serum triglyceride levels will lead to significant reductions in coronary mortality when starting lipid values are "normal" is a multifaceted ...

In a recent study published in the journal JACC Advances, researchers in the United States examined the presence of coronary atherosclerosis using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in ...

It may sound surprising: how can someone with perfect cholesterol still have a heart attack? But that’s exactly what longevity expert Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos, a Cornell-trained doctor, has been warning ...