“Daily updated tips to lower cholesterol”—– For local cardiologists, the results of last week’s groundbreaking study on heart disease and cholesterol drugs reaffirmed a long, firmly held belief: Lower cholesterol levels can save lives.
“This is a drum that has to be beaten with certain conviction and verve,” said Dr. Bryan Donohue, chief of the Division [...]

“Daily updated news on cholesterol”—Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins modestly reduce levels of a protein in a man’s blood that doctors often use to screen for prostate cancer, researchers said on Tuesday.
But it remains uncertain whether men who take statins have a lower risk for developing prostate cancer or whether the drugs may make it harder [...]

“Daily updated news on Cholesterol”—Cholesterol-fighting drugs known as statins reduced the risk of dying from pneumonia or developing dangerous blood clots in the legs, adding to a growing list of benefits from the popular drugs, two research groups said on Monday.
Statins, the world’s top-selling drugs, cut heart attack and stroke risk, and research has suggested [...]

You eat a low-fat, low cholesterol diet. You get plenty of exercise and keep your weight within a healthy range, yet still can’t seem to lower cholesterol. It may just be that your body is pre-programmed to a certain cholesterol level, and even the best efforts can make it difficult to go any lower. There [...]

The latest data as recorded by the American Heart Association shows an alarming rate of high cholesterol levels among Americans. Any total cholesterol level above 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood (written mg/dL) is considered borderline high. Extremely high total cholesterol is any reading above 240 mg/dL and one that puts you at risk [...]