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People with a rare cholesterol condition stayed on a pricey cholesterol drug for about a year on average, even though it didn’t help much — doctors might just keep prescribing it because they’re...
People with a rare genetic cholesterol disorder who still have a little bit of working cholesterol-cleaning system in their body tend to respond better to a certain type of cholesterol drug, lowering...
People with a rare genetic form of high cholesterol caused by two broken copies of the LDLR gene don’t get much benefit from PCSK9 inhibitor drugs — most see almost no drop in their bad cholesterol.
Even when people with a rare genetic cholesterol disorder take powerful new drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors along with their usual treatments, none of them got their bad cholesterol down to the...
For people with a rare cholesterol condition called HoFH who are already on cholesterol meds, adding a newer drug (PCSK9 inhibitor) barely lowers bad cholesterol for most — and 7 out of 10 don’t get...
If someone with type 2 diabetes has stable 'bad' cholesterol but their triglycerides go up over a year, they’re more likely to develop dangerous plaque buildup in their heart arteries—even if...
If you have type 2 diabetes but feel fine and your 'bad' cholesterol is under control, having higher triglycerides might still be quietly making your heart artery plaques more dangerous over time.
If you have type 2 diabetes but no symptoms and your 'bad' cholesterol is under control, what happens to your heart artery plaque over a year might depend on your triglycerides: going up could mean...
Even if someone with type 2 diabetes has good cholesterol levels, high triglycerides might still mean their heart plaque is getting worse in dangerous ways.
In healthy adults, leftover cholesterol in the blood doesn’t seem to add extra heart disease risk once you already know someone’s LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol level.
If healthy adults have higher 'bad' cholesterol levels, they’re more likely to show early signs of artery hardening, like thicker artery walls or plaque buildup in the neck arteries.
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.