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Even if you're a middle-aged adult with no obvious heart risks, having slightly high blood sugar — not quite diabetes — might mean you're more likely to have early signs of heart disease building up...
Guys and older people in middle age are more likely to have hidden artery buildup—even if they seem healthy—just like we usually see with heart disease.
Even if you're healthy and don't have typical heart disease risks, having higher 'bad' cholesterol (LDL) might still mean you're more likely to have early signs of artery buildup — and the higher the...
Even if you're middle-aged and seem healthy with normal cholesterol and no heart disease risks, almost half of people like you might already have early signs of heart disease you can't feel.
We can now lower bad cholesterol to super low levels with treatment — even lower than what babies or some animals have — but we're not sure if that's totally safe over the long term.
Taking statins might raise your chances of getting type 2 diabetes, and it's the medicine itself — not lower cholesterol — that's likely to blame.
Low LDL cholesterol probably isn't causing illnesses like cancer or depression — it's more likely that these diseases are lowering cholesterol as a side effect.
Even if medicine lowers your 'bad' cholesterol to super low levels—like what you see in babies or animals—your body can still make the hormones and digestive juices it needs.
People with plaque in their neck arteries are much more likely to have heart disease — about 8.6 times more likely — even after accounting for age and gender.
About 4 out of every 10 young adults with early signs of artery clogging don't have high cholesterol or high blood pressure—so our usual heart risk checks might be missing a lot of people who already...
If you're under 40 and have high 'bad' cholesterol or high blood pressure, you're more likely to have buildup in the neck arteries that supply your brain — a sign that heart disease might be starting...
Almost half of adults in Finland have buildup in their neck arteries that gets much more common as people get older — by age 70, nearly everyone has it, but kids don’t have it at all.
Really low 'bad' cholesterol might actually be a sign your body is doing a great job cleaning it out — not something to worry about.
Your body gets rid of cholesterol mainly through a cleanup system in the liver—since cells can't break cholesterol down, they send it to the liver to be removed.
People who take cholesterol-lowering drugs and get their bad cholesterol really low don’t seem to have more side effects than those who don’t get it as low.
Having really low 'bad' cholesterol thanks to how your body naturally processes it doesn’t seem to cause health problems, even over many years.
Ezetimibe helps lower bad cholesterol by stopping your gut from absorbing it, and even though it works well and doesn't cost much, doctors don't use it as much as they could.
Even if you feel fine, your arteries might start building up plaque when your 'bad' cholesterol (LDL) hits around 50 to 60 mg/dL, and the more LDL you have, the more plaque builds up — steadily and...
If you've had heart problems before, aiming to get your 'bad' cholesterol really low—below 55—cuts your risk of another heart issue by about a third compared to keeping it just under 70.
Taking a drug called evolocumab can lower the chance of having a first major heart problem by 25% in people at high risk who’ve never had a heart attack or stroke before.
Adding a drug called evolocumab to cholesterol-lowering statins can lower the chances of serious heart problems by 20% in people who already have heart disease.
Adding PCSK9 drugs to cholesterol-lowering statins can slash bad cholesterol by as much as 81% in people with high cholesterol.
Blocking a protein called PCSK9 with certain drugs helps your body remove bad cholesterol from your blood more effectively.
A protein called PCSK9 causes the liver to break down fewer 'bad' cholesterol carriers, which means more of it stays in your blood.