Why “normal range” doesn’t always mean healthy on your lab results Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel ...

High cholesterol causes plaque build-up that can block arteries and lead to a greater risk of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. If you want to keep your heart healthy, it's important to ...

There’s a good reason why high cholesterol is known as a “silent killer”. In most cases it has no symptoms but potentially ...

One of my patients complained that clinicians “are making the whole country sick. Everyone is abnormal.” Laboratories don’t report values based on the normal curve anymore. Instead, a normal level is ...

They’re behind millions of deaths every year – but fatty build-ups in our arteries often slip by unseen. How can we spot them ...

People whose LDL cholesterol is in the normal range—even those without metabolic risk factors—may yet have levels of apolipoprotein B (apoB) that predict an elevated risk of future atherosclerotic ...

Following a Mediterranean diet and making other simple lifestyle changes helped me improve my cardiovascular health.

A short-term oat-based diet appears to be surprisingly effective at reducing the cholesterol level. This is indicated by a trial by the University of Bonn, which has now been published in Nature ...