Calculating Your Cholesterol

Your cholesterol numbers help inform you of your risk of heart disease, but the standard way they’re determined doesn’t always provide the m...

Making sense of cholesterol tests

Time to get your cholesterol checked. Okay, but which test should you get? It's not so simple anymore. Here is a rundown of some of the ...

Cholesterol Test

A complete cholesterol test is also called a lipid panel or lipid profile. Your doctor can use it to measure the amount of “good” and “bad” ...

Very high levels of 'good' cholesterol may be harmful

Study author Dr Marc Allard-Ratick, of Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, US, said: "It may be time to change the way we vie...

LDL and HDL Cholesterol: "Bad" and "Good" Cholesterol

Cholesterol travels through the blood on proteins called “lipoproteins.” Two types of lipoproteins carry cholesterol throughout the body:...

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