The fact that having high cholesterol can cause health problems is well known. But a total cholesterol level that fluctuates a lot — either up or down within a five-year period — might also be ...

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Three days of oat-heavy meals spark gut-derived phenolic metabolites linked to rapid ...

What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start ...

Canned foods that lower cholesterol include vegetables like spinach, pumpkin, and okra, legumes like beans, fruit like pears, ...

If you want to lower your cholesterol but still enjoy tasty snacks, choose from these 12 ideas to satisfy you while being part of a heart-healthy diet.

The totality of the evidence indicates that treating patients to very low levels of LDL cholesterol will not increase risks of cognitive impairment, dementia, or hemorrhagic stroke, according to a new ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increased lipid levels from age 17 to 24 years were tied to worsening cardiac structure and function. Addressing ...

A multidisciplinary team has uncovered a key mechanism that allows the human bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae—responsible for atypical pneumonia and other respiratory infections—to obtain cholesterol ...

Cholesterol is one of those health terms we hear often but rarely think about until a test report surprises us. It is a waxy, fat-like substance present in our blood and is essential for making ...