These cholesterol level charts will show you what's normal for every age and gender. Plus, a few tips for staying within a healthy range.

Indians face heart attacks even with normal cholesterol due to a unique lipid pattern, low HDL, high triglycerides, insulin ...

Americans are inundated almost on a daily basis by information about the dangers of cholesterol. Still, an estimated 102 million adults in the U.S. have a cholesterol level putting them at risk for ...

Having “normal” cholesterol levels is often seen as a green signal for good heart health, but growing evidence suggests otherwise. The long-held belief that normal LDL automatically means low cardiac ...

LDL cholesterol alone doesn’t tell the full story. Doctors explain how Apo B and Lipoprotein(a) tests can reveal hidden heart ...

High cholesterol causes plaque build-up that can block arteries and lead to a greater risk of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. If you want to keep your heart healthy, it's important to ...

People whose LDL cholesterol is in the normal range—even those without metabolic risk factors—may yet have levels of apolipoprotein B (apoB) that predict an elevated risk of future atherosclerotic ...

For decades, getting a blood test followed a hierarchical pattern: You had the blood drawn, then waited for a doctor to get the results and interpret them for you. That’s changing. “People are being ...

That said, extremely low LDL, especially if it falls below 20–25 mg/dL, may cause problems in some individuals. Studies have ...

Patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia saw average reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol of 47.1% over 24 weeks. Reductions began to appear as early as 2 weeks after ...

Heart attack risk goes beyond LDL cholesterol. Doctor Priyanka Sehrawat points to Apo B and Lipoprotein (a) levels as crucial indicators. High Apo B means more harmful particles in blood. Lipoprotein ...

One of my patients complained that clinicians “are making the whole country sick. Everyone is abnormal.” Laboratories don’t report values based on the normal curve anymore. Instead, a normal level is ...