Regulating cholesterol levels is crucial for heart health. There are two types of cholesterol (we’ll explain the difference between “good” and “bad” shortly), and if you have too much of the kind that ...

You get your cholesterol checked at your annual physical, and a few days later, you get back your results. If you’ve ever looked down the list of acronyms and felt at a loss of how to make sense of ...

A study published in Circulation in 2023 linked elevated childhood cholesterol levels with an increased risk of problems such as heart attack and stroke in midlife. A separate, long-term study found ...

Cholesterol has earned a reputation as a “bad guy” when it comes to your health. Indeed, too much cholesterol in the bloodstream can make its way into the walls of your arteries, the process known as ...