The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new... New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more ...

As with any disease, it's pretty obvious that preventing heart disease is important. But why? What are the health ramifications of it? Well, they're pretty serious ones—including mortality—and affect ...

A simple cholesterol test could be the key to identifying people who are at risk of suffering heart attack and stroke, a new study suggests. More than half of British adults have high cholesterol, a ...

What do the numbers in a cholesterol test mean? A blood test called a lipid profile or lipid panel will show total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels. LDL is often ...

To fast or not to fast? That is the question many people ask before a cholesterol test. Patients used to be routinely instructed not to eat for at least eight hours before the screening, and some ...

Medically reviewed by Jeffrey S. Lander, MD Key Takeaways High cholesterol is usually symptom-free, making regular screening ...

New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for more aggressive prevention and earlier treatment, including a recommendation that all adults be tested once for lipoprotein(a), a genetic risk marker ...

Doctors say patients should get a lipoprotein(a) test along with other screening, in new guidelines for managing cholesterol. (ER Productions Limited/Digital Vision | Getty Images) New guidelines for ...