Your doctor will use these factors to determine a score of how likely you are to experience a heart attack or stroke within 10 years. If your risk is above 7.5 percent, he or she will generally ...

On Oct. 10, the FDA classified the recalled prescription medication as a Class II recall. The risk classification from the ...

Not all cholesterol is bad! High-density lipoprotein (HDL), or “good cholesterol,” acts like the cleanup crew, sweeping away ...

While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one-third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the past five years. Getting your cholesterol tested — ...

Diet plays an important role in maintaining healthy cholesterol numbers. Although the level of cholesterol in a person’s blood is partly due to factors related to heredity, the foods one eats also ...

Know your heart attack risk early. Let's know the top 5 medical tests — from ECG to cholesterol and CT scan — that can help ...

A major recall of thousands of bottles of medication has been upgraded to a higher risk level.

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 ...

Healthy runners probably don’t lend much thought to cholesterol numbers. But more than 12 percent of American adults over the age of 20 have high cholesterol (levels greater than 240 mg/dL), according ...

Fish oil supplements can lower cholesterol in people genetically predisposed to high levels of it Fish oil lowered total cholesterol, “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, despite genetic risk The ...

While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one-third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the past five years. Getting your cholesterol tested – ...