While statins can reduce LDL levels and ASCVD events, high Lp(a) poses an independent risk that will need attention, too.

Norwitz’s LDL levels dropped by 2 percent in the first week of his new diet before dramatically decreasing by 18 percent in ...

It provides misleading information, incomplete information, and what you need to know is the good cholesterol level, the HDL and the cholesterol, your LDL. It's not even good enough to have your ...

So even though participants had what is currently considered to be normal cholesterol or LDL, if your CRP was elevated, you benefited as much as people who had other risk factors. Dr. Willerson ...

In a majority of people, apoB and LDL-C track fairly closely, says Allan Sniderman, a professor of cardiology at McGill ...

It is carried in the blood by lipoproteins, and there are two main types: low-density lipoprotein (LDL), often referred to as "bad" cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), known as "good ...

These receptors are collectively called 'scavenger receptors' and are different from the normal LDL receptor in that they are not regulated by the cholesterol content within the macrophage.