Like cholesterol, triglycerides are a form of fat, or lipid — in fact, they're the most common form of fat in a person's body. After you eat, fat and calories that aren't immediately put to use by ...

Discussions about heart health often center around blood pressure and cholesterol, with factors like poor sleep, smoking, family history of heart disease, and chronic stress thrown in. However, ...

A new medication, pemafibrate, lowered triglyceride levels among adults with Type 2 diabetes yet did not decrease their cardiovascular risk, according to late-breaking science research presented today ...

ATLANTA -- A novel antisense mRNA drug slashed triglycerides in higher risk or moderate hypertriglyceridemia patients and in those with extremely elevated levels from familial chylomicronemia syndrome ...

If you have high triglyceride levels, your doctor may recommend Vascepa. Vascepa is a prescription medication used to: help lower blood levels of triglycerides in adults with certain conditions help ...

The evidence for elevated triglycerides, as a cardiac risk factor, is nowhere near as well understood as the risk from high LDL and low HDL cholesterol. However, the growing body of epidemiologic ...

Levels of triglycerides are routinely measured as part of a preventive cardiology work-up and lowering triglycerides with several classes of drugs is common medical practice. Yet, in a major ...

Familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) is a rare genetic disease that causes very high triglyceride levels in the body. Tryngolza (olezarsen) was approved in 2024 and is the first and only ...

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Plasma triglyceride (TG) concentration reflects circulating triglyceride-rich lipoproteins and their metabolic remnants (predominantly chylomicrons, very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and ...

The AHA urges doctors to begin screening and treating patients who are still in their 30s, well before the risks of a heart ...

Stroke can have many causes. An atherothrombotic stroke is caused by a clot that forms from plaques that build up within blood vessels in the brain. A new study suggests that people who have this type ...