The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and apolipoprotein B.

As an avid exercising vegetarian, admittedly I have been quite smug in assessing my risk of heart disease. Goodness gracious, I’m doing everything right, following the rules of good preventive health ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Twenty-six weeks of PCSK9 inhibitor therapy on top of maximally tolerated statins increases markers of plaque stability in patients with stable coronary artery disease and may, down ...

You’ve likely heard plenty about LDL (“bad”) and HDL (“good”) cholesterol. But there’s another heart-health marker worth knowing: ApoB. This lesser-known blood test can offer a more accurate picture ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A potential target for improving residual lipid-related risk for atherosclerotic CVD is reduction in ...

Hypercholesterolemia or high cholesterol is often asymptomatic until it has reached an advanced stage, but the typical ocular manifestations include xanthelasma and arcus corneae, which are considered ...

Over a century of epidemiologic studies and randomized trials have definitively established the causal role of cholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis. Total cholesterol, and later ...

Treatments for high cholesterol stemming from a rare genetic disorder focus on lowering patients’ LDL, or “bad” cholesterol and delaying disease progression. HDL Therapeutics is looking to go further: ...

This is a summary of a preprint research study written by authors from Chiba University, Japan, on Research Square, provided to you by Medscape. This study has not yet been peer reviewed. Visit ...