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

Major medical organizations updated the cholesterol playbook for the first time in years, with new risk tools, lower targets ...

A new international study suggests that people who naturally have lower cholesterol levels may have a much lower risk of developing dementia later in life. The research looked at health and genetic ...

Growing older changes everything — from how your body processes food to how it reacts to stress and even how it handles cholesterol. For years, many people are told to fear cholesterol, but after ...

You expect certain hormone-driven symptoms in your 40s and 50s. Hot flashes, mood swings, a lack of sex drive. But high cholesterol? That one tends to fly under the ...

High cholesterol is often painted as a one-way ticket to heart disease, but science and real-life stories tell a more complex tale. Not everyone with high cholesterol ends up in a cardiologist’s ...

It’s critical for preventing heart disease and other serious health problems. By Knvul Sheikh While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one third of Americans say they ...

Heart specialists have shared a seven-day meal plan designed to help lower high cholesterol. And it may even reduce the need for statins. Statins are prescription medications used to lower cholesterol ...

Most people associate high cholesterol with an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle—a condition that develops over many years and you only need to worry about as you get older. However, this isn't ...

You may not recall every lab value from your last physical, but you probably remember one: Your cholesterol level. If it’s higher than ideal, you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Centers for ...