New ACC/AHA guidelines urge earlier cholesterol screening and treatment, focusing on lifetime heart risks.

Dietitians warn that a common food found in many daily meals may quietly increase cholesterol levels and heart disease risk.

Cardiology experts say new national recommendations focus on earlier screening and long-term heart risk prevention.

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and ...

Heart health experts released new guidance to help identify early risk factors for heart disease that go beyond tracking ...

If it’s higher than ideal, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2015 and 2018, almost 12% of U.S. adults ages 20 and up had high total ...

Cholesterol is often considered harmful, but it is needed by the body to perform several functions. The problem lies in high ...

Officer is not alone. As women enter menopause, cholestrol levels jump—by an average of 10-15%, or about 10 to 20 milligrams per deciliter. (A healthy adult cholesterol range is 125-200 milligrams per ...

According to Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, cardiologist and director of Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School at Tufts University, one vegetable wins in the realm of cardiac health: ...

(Family Features) Getting your cholesterol checked, and talking with your doctor about steps to control high cholesterol, could save your life. If you, or someone you love, have experienced a heart ...

I’m a dietitian, and this is what helped my mom bring her LDL down.