The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new doctors' guidelines.

The latest cholesterol guidelines include three new screening tests: coronary artery calcium, lipoprotein (a), and ...

If you are concerned about your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, you’ll usually get a specific blood test to look at your cholesterol levels to see where things stand. At least, that’s how ...

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New American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines recommend earlier and more personalised cholesterol testing, starting in childhood and continuing through adulthood.

It's called the Lp(a) cholesterol test. Leslie Cho, MD explains what the changed recommendation means.

A machine learning model predicts low-density lipoprotein cholesterol from routine lab data, offering a low-cost way to ...

As with any disease, it’s pretty obvious that preventing heart disease is important. But why? What are the health ramifications of it? Well, they're pretty serious ones—including mortality—and affect ...

Doctors should begin screening for heart disease and treating people for high cholesterol levels even younger than before, ...

New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for a more aggressive preventive approach, which could translate into more Americans being treated with medicines and a stronger focus on lifestyle.

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new... New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more ...