Details suggest two separate medications may present health risks.

Two days of intensive oatmeal intake lowered LDL cholesterol and shifted gut bacteria, pointing to a rapid nutrition strategy for lipid control.

A selective Liver X Receptor inverse agonist lowered triglycerides and post-meal cholesterol in people, opening a safer path ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Since researchers first established the link between diet, cholesterol and heart disease in the 1950s, risk for heart disease has been ...

The U.S. has a cholesterol problem. Roughly 37% of Americans have high cholesterol, a statistic that’s likely underreported, considering that, according to a 2023 study, many people with high ...

Your cholesterol levels—whether they are in range or dangerously high—are a key indicator of your risk of developing heart disease. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Once upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging “bad” sort and an artery-clearing “good” one. The difference was not in the ...

A new daily pill could reduce bad cholesterol levels by 60%, according to a new study. Enlicitide, which was developed by Merck, lowered “bad” LDL cholesterol by more than half in a global study ...

A new daily pill could reduce bad cholesterol levels by 60%, according to a new study. Enlicitide, which was developed by Merck, lowered "bad" LDL cholesterol by more than half in a global study ...

Trials of a new cholesterol-lowering pill have shown promising results for people with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), a genetic disorder that leads to high levels of LDL ...