Over the last three decades, differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity ...

A small percentage of heart attacks occur without traditional risk factors. Hidden inflammation and years of extreme endurance exercise may play a role ...

Differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure found to have ‘narrowed or disappeared’ in over-40s ...

Adults over 40 with overweight or obesity now have similar blood pressure and cholesterol levels to their normal weight ...

If you are concerned about your risk of developing cardiovascular disease, you’ll usually get a specific blood test to look at your cholesterol levels to see where things stand. At least, that’s how ...

HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, appears to influence treatment decisions around statin therapy, according to an analysis in JACC: Advances. Compared with people who have normal HDL-cholesterol ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), and nine other leading medical organizations recently released the new guidelines for treating and managing dyslipidemia ...

Over the last three decades, differences in unhealthy cholesterol levels and blood pressure between older adults with obesity and those with a normal body mass index (BMI) have narrowed or disappeared ...

Obese people in middle age now have the same risk of heart-related conditions as those of a healthy weight because of advances in medication, research has found.

Dr Vinayak Agrawal explains why looking at multiple lipids is necessary to determine the heart health of lean Indians. Here ...

The decreases in blood pressure and cholesterol in higher income countries are mainly observed in older patients with obesity ...

Statins, a cholesterol lowering drug taken by about 8 million people in the UK, could be narrowing the heart attack risk between obese adults and those of a healthy weight ...