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Why your 'normal' cholesterol panel may be missing your real heart health risk

If you're in midlife, your risk may be changing-even if your numbers aren't.
Time

Should You Try to Raise Your ‘Good’ Cholesterol? You Might Not Need To

Klein is a contributor for TIME. Klein is a contributor for TIME. Most of the time, you want your cholesterol to be low—ideally less than 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). But as you likely know ...
Oregonian

Dear Doctor: What’s the real significance of a high HDL cholesterol value?

DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you please explain what is cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein and the significance of a high HDL cholesterol value? What about non-HDL ...
USA Today

Not all types of cholesterol are bad. Why you probably need to lower your LDL cholesterol

Due to how dangerous and life-threatening heart disease can be, it's fortunate that many of its symptoms alert us when a problem arises that we need to have checked out. Chest pain, inexplicably ...
ConsumerAffairs

Could a daily pill lower your ‘bad’ cholesterol?

An experimental pill called enlicitide was found to dramatically lower LDL (“bad”) cholesterol by ~60% in a large phase 3 clinical trial. The study ...