The new guidelines aim to give doctors and their patients an individualized and clear path to follow. Heart disease remains ...

Doctors should begin screening for heart disease and treating people for high cholesterol levels even younger than before, ...

PREVENT risk estimation starts at age 30 and incorporates lifetime risk, enabling earlier identification of patients who ...

For primary prevention patients at high risk, such as those with a 10-year risk > 10%, the LDL target is less than 70 mg/dL ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 73-year-old man. I exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet and have not eaten beef or pork in over 40 years. In spite of all of this, I was diagnosed in January 2022 with a 90% ...

American College of Cardiology (ACC), and nine other leading medical organizations have released updated guidelines for ...

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Statins, a type of medication commonly taken by people with high levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol, lower the risk of a future dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis, according to a new study. Statins may ...