Having “normal” cholesterol levels is often seen as a green signal for good heart health, but growing evidence suggests otherwise. The long-held belief that normal LDL automatically means low cardiac ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband and I recently achieved the near impossible task of becoming attached to a family doctor! After many years without getting tested, our first order of business was a complete ...

For decades, we’ve been told that high cholesterol is the main villain behind heart disease. Most of us breathe a sigh of ...

You have had the cholesterol conversation with your doctor enough times that the numbers feel familiar. LDL, HDL, ...

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 ...

A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s -- with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors -- to develop coronary artery ...

There has been an increase in heart attacks and heart-related events. While most reports suggest that such cardiac events are sudden, this is not entirely true. A majority of people only focus on ...

When it comes to cholesterol, numbers matter. Too much of this fatty, waxy substance in your blood can lead to artery clogs that put you at risk for heart disease, a heart attack, or a stroke. You ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: My husband and I recently achieved the near impossible task of becoming attached to a family doctor! After many years without getting tested, our first order of business was a complete ...

The reduction in remnant cholesterol is particularly important because those remnants may contain up to four times more cholesterol per particle than LDL. Moreover, prior research has demonstrated an ...