To fast or not to fast? That is the question many people ask before a cholesterol test. Patients used to be routinely instructed not to eat for at least eight hours before the screening, and some ...

While high cholesterol is often thought of as a condition associated with an unhealthy lifestyle, lack of exercise and one too many pizza and Prosecco nights, you might not be as unlikely to have it ...

For decades, assessing cholesterol risk has been built around a simple idea: Lower “bad” cholesterol, lower your chance of a heart attack. The test at the center of that approach measures how much low ...