New recommendations suggest that some people should start trying to lower their cholesterol as early as age 30.
You have had the cholesterol conversation with your doctor enough times that the numbers feel familiar. LDL, HDL, ...
Your doctor hands you a cholesterol report filled with abbreviations and numbers. The test measures four key components that predict the risk of heart disease and stroke. Understanding what these ...
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 ...
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and nine other leading medical organizations recently released the new guidelines for treating and managing dyslipidemia ...
For the first time since 2018, a clinical guideline from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association for screening and managing blood cholesterol levels has been updated and ...
Clinical, scientific, and policy experts gather every several years to review and revise the recommendations that guide how clinicians around the world assess and manage patients with blood fat ...
I am a family physician, and I frequently see lipid panels in basically healthy women that are just on the border of what I would ordinarily consider would necessitate intervention. For example, one ...
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) framework, which uses a holistic approach to ...