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 ...

MADRID, SPAIN — Subclinical atherosclerosis was detectable by ultrasound or cardiac CT in about half of middle-aged adults who were without standard cardiovascular risk factors, including diabetes and ...

Eating oats for every meal for two days cut 'bad' cholesterol by up to 10 percent in a small clinical trial. Surprisingly, ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

For years, heart health conversations have focused on familiar numbers: LDL, HDL, and triglycerides. These markers appear in almost every routine cholesterol report. Yet cardiologists say an important ...

Losing a battle you cannot see is one of the biggest challenges in medicine. And for many Americans, that quiet fight happens ...

Results The HDL cholesterol level in patients receiving statins was predictive of major cardiovascular events across the TNT study cohort, both when HDL cholesterol was considered as a continuous ...