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

Despite common assumptions, maintaining a standard cholesterol reading does not fully shield individuals from heart attacks. Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos, a leading physician in preventative cardiology and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I’m 80 years old. My doctor ordered a fasting blood test, which showed that my LDL cholesterol is 119 mg/dL; my HDL is 68 mg/dL; my cholesterol/HDL ratio is 3-to-1; my total ...

Beyond total cholesterol, these few other indicators may help provide more profound information about the chances of a person having heart disease.

Almost 25 million adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, which puts them at a higher risk for a heart attack or stroke in ...

The problem starts with how doctors typically test for heart disease. Traditional lipid panels focus on cholesterol—a waxy substance that can build up in arteries—and triglycerides, a type of fat that ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 63-year-old man taking 20 mg of rosuvastatin a day, and my blood showed that my total cholesterol level was 136 mg/dL; my HDL was 47 mg/dL; and my LDL was 70 mg/dL. I was then ...

WASHINGTON, DC — One in three children undergoing routine lipid screening in primary-care pediatric clinics have cholesterol levels considered high or borderline high, according to a new analysis [1].