A standard cholesterol panel doesn’t tell the whole story. It measures total cholesterol, LDL (“bad” cholesterol), HDL (“good” cholesterol) and triglycerides. That gives a general idea of how much ...

Mention the word "cholesterol" and suddenly, everyone in the conversation is tense. High cholesterol affects about 10 percent of Americans ages 20 and up, but cholesterol itself isn’t necessarily a ...

You get your cholesterol checked at your annual physical, and a few days later, you get back your results. If you’ve ever looked down the list of acronyms and felt at a loss of how to make sense of ...