Routine blood tests cannot fully guarantee heart safety as hidden arterial plaques may rupture causing heart attacks.

BALTIMORE — Updated for the first time in six years, clinical guidelines for screening and managing cholesterol now recommend earlier screenings — as young as nine years old — for those with a family ...

Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

For decades, we’ve been told that high cholesterol is the main villain behind heart disease. Most of us breathe a sigh of ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and nine other leading medical organizations recently released the new guidelines for treating and managing dyslipidemia ...