LDL and HDL are two forms of cholesterol associated with heart health. Keeping them within an optimal range reduces your risk of heart disease. Reviewed by Dietitian Jessica Ball, M.S., RD ...

Though you may know the difference between bad cholesterol and good cholesterol, you may not know that your triglycerides, a type of fat found in your blood, are equally important to your heart ...

Cholesterol can be a complicated subject that many people might admit they do not fully understand. Most people have been taught that cholesterol is a bad thing. And for a while it was thought that ...

The two major forms of cholesterol found in your body are low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL). LDL, sometimes known as “bad cholesterol,” is made by your body and ...

Increasing your HDL cholesterol can lower your risk of heart disease, and there are many ways you can achieve this on your own, without medication. There are two main types of cholesterol in the ...

This protein-fat bubble is called a lipoprotein. Total cholesterol should remain below 200 mg/dl, unless HDL is high. LDL should be lower than 130 mg/dl. HDL should be 35 mg/dl or higher.

There are two main types of lipoprotein: high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which people may refer to as good cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or bad, cholesterol.

They had higher HDL, but lower LDL, cholesterol and a higher waist-to-hip ratio (indicative of central obesity). They were also more likely to be ex-smokers, and to be taking statins, and they had ...

versus placebo. There was no significant difference between the 12 and 24 month ERN-treated patients for change in CIMT. After controlling for LDL-C and triglycerides, only changes in HDL-C were ...