Cholesterol is an important part of your body's normal functioning, but having too much of the wrong type can increase the risk of heart disease and stroke. High cholesterol usually does not cause any ...

A recent study has found that a blood test, called the apolipoprotein B (apoB) test, may be better at identifying people who ...

Dr Vinayak Agrawal explains why knowing your cholesterol ratio is necessary. Here is how you can calculate it and what it ...

However, evidence of high cholesterol can appear in unexpected places, including the Achilles tendons, reports Surrey Live.

Although ApoB testing is becoming more accessible, it has not yet entered routine preventive screening in India.

For decades, we’ve been told that high cholesterol is the main villain behind heart disease. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief when our blood reports show normal LDL levels. We assume our arteries ...

In industrialized countries, the gaps in systolic BP and cholesterol have shrunk between obese and normal-weight individuals.

Adults over 40 with overweight or obesity now have similar blood pressure and cholesterol levels to their normal weight ...

Over the last three decades, differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity ...

A novel molecular pathway to explain how a mutation in the gene ACTA2 can cause individuals in their 30s—with normal cholesterol levels and no other risk factors—to develop coronary artery disease has ...

A study reveals narrowing gaps in blood pressure and cholesterol between obesity and normal BMI, highlighting evolving ...

Patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia saw average reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of 47.1% over 24 weeks. Reductions began to appear as early as 2 weeks after ...