Textbook cholesterol numbers don't guarantee a healthy heart. Experts reveal hidden risks like ApoB, Lp(a), and insulin resistance, often missed by standard tests. These factors, alongside ...

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With virtually every health condition, nature and nurture both come into play. It’s important to know what your inherited risk factors are, but it’s also important to know what’s in your control. This ...

Is cholesterol the problem? Or just a response to the body’s inflammation and infectious issues? Why do we need cholesterol? Is the cholesterol you eat the issue — or the type that your body makes?

The first way to reduce plaque build-up is to reduce the amount of LDL cholesterol available to be oxidized in the first place. Reducing cholesterol is the focus of most of our traditional efforts at ...

When we hear about high cholesterol, most of us think about it causing heart attacks or strokes. And it scares us. According to the National Health Library, high cholesterol itself does not cause ...

A new guide published by NHLBI helps you make the lifestyle changes needed to reduce cholesterol and with it the risk for heart disease. A new guide "Your Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol with TLC ...

Cholesterol is made by the liver and carried in the blood all around your body. It’s taken out of blood and into the cells to be used or stored, and any excess cholesterol can be carried back to the ...

A recent study published in Nature provides new insights into genetic predispositions to Alzheimer’s disease. The E4 variant of the APOE gene is accepted as the predominant genetic risk factor for ...

Red meat may be back in the spotlight, but what does that mean for your cholesterol? While burgers and steaks can be ...

The hypothesis: cholesterol and lipoproteins like LDL are inherently good and necessary unless they become unbalanced either through genetics or lifestyle choices. From last week: It turns out that ...