Sometimes, lifestyle modifications alone won't help you have healthy cholesterol numbers. "When diet and exercise aren’t enough, considering starting a medication such as a statin, ezetimibe, or PCSK9 ...

Oklahoma women, don’t wait for the terrible wakeup call of a heart attack or stroke. Know your heart disease risk.

There’s a good reason why high cholesterol is known as a “silent killer”. In most cases it has no symptoms but potentially ...

Understanding your cholesterol test results in plain English Your doctor hands you a cholesterol report filled with ...

A powerful tool for your heart might already be hiding in the back of your pantry. New research suggests that a short-term ...

A Baton Rouge teacher shares her journey with hypertension and advocacy as Go Red for Women highlights maternal heart health ...

Over the past few years, access to health research has become easier than ever, yet understanding it seems to be getting harder. A study is published, a striking number is pulled out of context, ...

Atorvastatin, which has a brand name of Lipitor, is prescribed to millions of people across the UK every year. According to ...

A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level. This is indicated by a ...

After more than a century of battling heart disease as the number one killer of Americans, you would think we’d know all about it. For a good part of the 20th century, cardiologists thought they had ...

After more than a century of battling heart disease as the number one killer of Americans, you would think we’d know all about it. For a good part of the 20th century, cardiologists thought they had ...

Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...