High cholesterol is a leading risk factor for heart disease During winter the condition can become more prevalent A cardiologist explains why it happens encouraging more frequent cholesterol screening ...

There are a lot of different elements that people believe are not good and should be avoided completely like cholesterol and fats. But what people do not understand is that these are also necessary ...

Statin therapy greatly reduces LDL-cholesterol levels and slows progression of coronary atherosclerosis. The small statin-induced increases observed in HDL-cholesterol levels have not, however ...

The role of HDL is to transport excess cholesterol from ... Cholesterol levels are also controlled by a negative feedback system: cells have LDL receptors on their surface which allow cholesterol ...