New recommendations suggest that some people should start trying to lower their cholesterol as early as age 30.

Eggs, shrimp, and other once-forbidden foods now have the all-clear. Here are the surprising high-cholesterol foods experts say are the real culprits. The post The 9 Worst Foods for Your Cholesterol, ...

Mass General Brigham researchers found that the intensive cholesterol-lowering therapy evolocumab reduced the risk of a first major cardiovascular event in high-risk patients who did not have known ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - September is Cholesterol Awareness Month. Cholesterol, it’s a waxy, fat-like substance your body needs to function. But too much of it can increase your risk for ...

For years, cholesterol was seen as an “older person’s problem.” People thought of their parents or grandparents being told to skip fried food or take cholesterol-lowering tablets. But times have ...

Two warning signs can sometimes appear on the face ...

A bacterially produced molecule circulates in the bloodstream and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by hijacking immune-cell signalling. Federico Rey is in the Department of Bacteriology, ...

Using cholesterol-lowering drugs more aggressively to lower LDL cholesterol levels further than traditional guidelines ...

High cholesterol is one of the most common and manageable risk factors for heart disease. Millions of adults are prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...

Both statin and ezetimibe are commonly prescribed medicines to manage high cholesterol levels. Read on as a doctor explains ...