San Antonio, TX - Regular visits to the supermarket's "tofu and soy" section may help your patients' heart health - even patients with normal cholesterol levels. Results from a randomized clinical ...
Regulating cholesterol levels is crucial for heart health. There are two types of cholesterol (we'll explain the difference between "good" and "bad" shortly), and if you have too much of the kind that ...
Dr. Stephen Devine is on a mission to raise levels of HDL, or the "good" cholesterol. Devine, a Gundersen Lutheran cardiologist who specializes in non-invasive ways to prevent heart disease, said low ...
You get your cholesterol checked at your annual physical, and a few days later, you get back your results. If you’ve ever looked down the list of acronyms and felt at a loss of how to make sense of ...
Cholesterol science has grown from a single-number focus to a broader understanding of LDL and HDL behavior, triglycerides, inflammation, and metabolic health. This overview explores how multiple ...
If you're in midlife, your risk may be changing-even if your numbers aren't.
The latest cholesterol levels of a 67-year-old white woman are total cholesterol 350 mg/dL, HDL 150 mg/dL, and LDL 186 mg/dL. In the past, her levels have been total cholesterol 229-290; HDL 120 and ...
Despite its nickname as the “good cholesterol” because of its cardiovascular benefits, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol was linked to as much as a 42% increased risk for dementia in older ...