Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...

A new discovery about how the liver flushes cholesterol ... heart disease and stroke. High cholesterol levels may have a ...

The most common are statins, which block an enzyme the liver needs ... instead of taking medications. What if your elevated ...

But for those who need to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, statin drugs lower the level of "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipo­protein, or LDL) in the blood by blocking a liver enzyme ...