High Cholesterol

Abdominal aortic aneurysms can occur in anyone, but are most commonly found in men over the age of 60 with one or more risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure, a positive family history, high cholesterol, peripheral vascular disease or...

Since we don't know exactly what makes a person fall into either category ("hyporesponder" or "hyperresponder") this information only points to one basic action step that you can take. If you have high cholesterol or are at risk for high cholesterol,...

Data from two studies show that patients 65 and older who did not take their medicines as prescribed had around a 30 percent higher risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular disease when compared to patients who took their medications as prescribed. ...

As we age, we lose much of our supply of CoQ10, particularly in the heart. At the age of 80, for example, CoQ10 levels are cut by more than half. CoQ10 benefits and protects the heart in many ways, including helping lowering high blood pressure and...

Common problems we deal with all the time may be due to being a carrier for this disease. This study will help not only islanders but could show that we should be treating common disorders in a different way." For example, if a link is found between...

Incorrect Figure Labels:JAMA (2012;307[12]:1302-1309), the forest plot labels in Figure 1 and Figure 2 should have read: “Non–High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol,” and not “High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol.” This article was corrected online.

A high level of HDL cholesterol is strongly predictive of a low incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). But trials of drugs that increase HDL cholesterol have not consistently shown decreases in CHD, leading to the hypothesis that HDL cholesterol...

"The FDA has not offered any evidence establishing that it is safe, or patient outcomes are improved, when patients with hypertension, [high cholesterol], asthma or migraine headaches self-diagnose and manage these (or other) serious chronic medical...

More than one-third of America's children are currently overweight or obese, according to the CDC. Nearly 20 percent are obese. Children who are overweight or obese are far more likely to have high blood pressure than their normal-weight peers. ...