cholesterol

Popular cholesterol drugs may help prevent dementia

Having lower cholesterol levels may help protect against dementia, according to a large-scale international study led by the University of…

4 months ago

Heart attack risk? This heart scan can tell you more than a cholesterol test; but you probably haven’t heard of it |

When it comes to heart health, most people rely on the usual suspects , cholesterol numbers, blood pressure readings, maybe…

7 months ago

Putting a lid on excess cholesterol to halt bladder cancer cell growth

Like all cancers, bladder cancer develops when abnormal cells start to multiply out of control. But what if we could…

1 year ago

More than half of American Indian youth may have abnormal or high cholesterol

More than 70% of American Indian young adults aged 20-39 and 50% of American Indian teens have cholesterol levels or…

2 years ago

PET imaging validates use of common cholesterol drug to enhance HER2-targeted cancer therapy

A novel therapeutic approach that combines human epidermal growth receptor factor 2 (HER2)-targeted therapies with the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin can…

2 years ago