A joint committee of eleven major U.S. medical organizations has released a new guideline on managing dyslipidemia that ...

New American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines recommend earlier and more personalised cholesterol testing, starting in ...

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high ...

The idea is to control bad cholesterol early in life. Additional tests are also recommended to provide a clearer picture of ...

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes. By Gina Kolata People at risk of heart disease should start trying ...

As with any disease, it’s pretty obvious that preventing heart disease is important. But why? What are the health ramifications of it? Well, they're pretty serious ones—including mortality—and affect ...

A major new U.S. cholesterol guideline is shifting the focus toward earlier, more personalized prevention of heart disease. It urges people to start screening sooner—sometimes even in childhood—and ...

If you are concerned about your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, you’ll usually get a specific blood test to look at your cholesterol levels to see where things stand. At least, that’s how ...

A machine learning model predicts low-density lipoprotein cholesterol from routine lab data, offering a low-cost way to ...

Cholesterol is a form of fat we need. It helps make the outer membranes of our bodies' cells stable. But for decades, doctors have known that people with high total cholesterol levels are more likely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metabolic tests can be helpful baselines to assess your risk of developing all sorts of conditions, including heart disease. One, ...