MANY FACTORS CAN CAUSE your cholesterol levels to creep up, including your diet and how much you exercise. So sometimes making lifestyle changes can lower your numbers. Cholesterol is a fat-like ...

High cholesterol is one of the most common and manageable risk factors for heart disease. Millions of adults are prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...

We need some cholesterol but too much is harmful. Statin drugs prevent the liver from making so much LDL (bad cholesterol), and have saved millions of lives. However, some people don’t tolerate them ...

You might have high LDL cholesterol and not even know it. We spoke to experts about how to monitor this health stat so you ...

For some people with high cholesterol, making lifestyle changes and taking routine statin medications may not be sufficient to help them reach their target cholesterol levels. For these patients, a ...

Over the past several days, two major developments have emerged in the world of cholesterol-lowering therapies—specifically concerning the heavy-hitters known as PCSK9 inhibitors. In this letter, I’d ...