San Antonio, TX - Regular visits to the supermarket's "tofu and soy" section may help your patients' heart health - even patients with normal cholesterol levels. Results from a randomized clinical ...

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 ...

Glasgow, Scotland - Data from a new analysis of one of the large statin trials raise some questions as to which lipoprotein measurements are most appropriate in determining the risk of coronary heart ...

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 ...

The latest cholesterol levels of a 67-year-old white woman are total cholesterol 350 mg/dL, HDL 150 mg/dL, and LDL 186 mg/dL. In the past, her levels have been total cholesterol 229-290; HDL 120 and ...

How to increase HDL cholesterol naturally with diet, exercise and lifestyle tips. Read practical advice to improve heart ...

Despite its nickname as the “good cholesterol” because of its cardiovascular benefits, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol was linked to as much as a 42% increased risk for dementia in older ...

In a recent study published in the journal JACC Advances, researchers in the United States examined the presence of coronary atherosclerosis using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) in ...

A 22-year-old woman has a higher-than-normal HDL level, which raises her total cholesterol despite a normal LDL. Would you treat the elevated HDL? Her life insurance premium was raised because she has ...