While cholesterol is primarily found in the cell membrane, its role there is not well understood. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have used a powerful imaging technology to reveal ...

For decades, doctors have fussed over patients’ HDL, or “good” cholesterol, levels, prescribing medications to boost them if they drop below the recommended benchmark. Now, a study from the University ...

Many studies have indicated that therapeutics that increase levels of "good" cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) could be clinically useful for the treatment of coronary artery disease -- a disease of the ...

While genetics play a big role in cholesterol levels, doctors agree that simple daily food choices—like adding fiber, fish, ...

A new study shows that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function. Research by an Iowa State ...

DALLAS - November 18, 2014 - Groundbreaking research from UT Southwestern Medical Center shows that cholesterol efflux capacity (cholesterol efflux), which measures HDL cholesterol function, appears ...

The study, published recently in the January-February 2005 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, was conducted by researchers from Boston University. Their major finding is that naturally occurring total ...

The body itself synthesizes cholesterol from the food and performs some important functions of the body like: - Many people fail to understand that little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So the point ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I have been on Niaspan for low HDL – good cholesterol. My ...

In animals, cholesterol is synthesized or taken up from food. It is then transported to specific destinations, incorporated into appropriate membranes, metabolized into active derivatives that ...