These cholesterol level charts will show you what's normal for every age and gender. Plus, a few tips for staying within a healthy range.
What Is a Lipid Profile? Lipid profile, or sometimes referred to as lipid panel, is a blood test that's used as a screening tool for abnormalities in lipids, such as cholesterol and triglycerides. It ...
Not all cholesterol is bad! High-density lipoprotein (HDL), or “good cholesterol,” acts like the cleanup crew, sweeping away ...
Indians face heart attacks even with normal cholesterol due to a unique lipid pattern, low HDL, high triglycerides, insulin resistance, elevated lipoprotein(a), early plaque formation, and lifestyle ...
What you eat, drink or do before a lipid test can quietly skew cholesterol results. An Apollo doctor explains how dinner, ...
Having normal cholesterol does not mean low risk, as heart disease can occur even with a textbook lipid profile, revealed top neurologist Dr Sudhir Kumar. Dr Kumar was referring to a case of a ...
This column is the first in a series about risk factors for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), the cause of several health problems, including heart attacks — the number one cause of death ...
Normal cholesterol doesn’t always mean a healthy heart. Neurologist Dr Priyanka Sehrawat highlights two key indicators that can signal heart attack risk.
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Use of enlicitide 20 mg, an oral PCSK9 inhibitor, significantly cut levels of LDL cholesterol and other atherogenic lipids in a large cohort of high-risk patients, results from the ...