If you've been diagnosed with elevated cholesterol levels, you'll certainly want to limit your intake of certain kinds of ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD Normal HDL and LDL cholesterol ranges vary by age and assigned sex. HDL cholesterol is the "good" cholesterol you ...

Brisk walking can increase "good" HDL cholesterol and potentially lower "bad" LDL cholesterol. Learn how much (and how fast) ...

Our results are almost identical with high HDL, normal LDL, good ratios and low triglycerides, but our total cholesterol is flagged as high. We are both 52-year-old endurance athletes of normal BMI.

Dr. Soma Mandal, a board-certified internist at Summit Health in New Providence, New Jersey, says that getting a CBC test is ...

Our results are almost identical with high HDL, normal LDL, good ratios and low triglycerides, but our total cholesterol is flagged as high. We are both 52-year-old endurance athletes of normal BMI.

Normal LDL cholesterol levels are associated with the build-up of atherosclerotic plaques in our arteries even in those with so-called optimal risk factors by current standards: blood pressure ...

Harvard medical student, Dr. Nick Norwitz ate 720 eggs in a month to study the effects the "fowl" diet had on his cholesterol and saw that his levels dropped nearly 20 percent.

Norwitz’s LDL levels dropped by 2 percent in the first week of his new diet before dramatically decreasing by 18 percent in the latter two. Norwitz’s normal LDL levels were around 90mg per ...

Dr. Reiner and others have identified genetic variations that predict CRP levels, and variations that predict heart attack and other events, but they have yet to find a single gene that predicts both, ...

But LDL cholesterol is only one part of a larger equation that measures a person’s overall risk of having a heart attack or stroke. For years, guidelines focused on specific target numbers for ...