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 ...

You might already know that some biomarkers, like blood pressure, naturally shift as you age. You may even be aware that older people tend to need to get up more often at night to pee ― that too has ...

High cholesterol is often the result of an unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, smoking cigarettes, obesity, or genetics. Here's ...

Our risk of developing atherosclerosis -- 'furring' of the arteries -- can begin much earlier in life than was previously thought, highlighting the need to keep cholesterol levels low even when we are ...

Heather Bowers doesn't recall all the details of her first cholesterol screening. It was at a college health fair two decades ...

So-called “good” HDL cholesterol may not be as healthy as experts once thought, a new study suggests. The new study, published Wednesday in Neurology, found that having either high or low levels of ...

High levels of "good" cholesterol in the blood may be associated with an increased risk of dementia, a new study suggests. However, experts are divided on the extent to which this data supports a ...

A new medication that combines an already approved drug with a new unapproved one has been shown to cut the level of LDL, or “bad” cholestero l, when statins aren’t helping enough. In the Phase 3 ...