After finding out you have hypercholesterolemia, your medical team may recommend medication to lower your high cholesterol levels and thus reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, and other ...

Hypercholesterolemia: All You Need To Know About It And 5 Foods To Manage The Condition Hypercholesterolemia is a condition characterised by the presence of very high levels of cholesterol in the ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Aggravated Hypercholesterolemia' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications ...

Our body requires a balance of all the important nutrients,vitamins and minerals. Overconsumption or deficiency of any one element can become a risk factor for your health. A certain amount of ...

Clin Lipidology. 2012;7(5):489-492. "The foods with the most evidence for cholesterol reduction are nuts, legumes, whole cereals rich in soluble fiber, and cocoa and its main commercial product, ...

Hypercholesterolemia impact on cardiovascular outcomes is explored by a key opinion leader. Erin Michos, MD, MHS: [CLEAR Outcomes is] 1 more trial that shows that nonstatin therapy lowers LDL ...

Familial Hypercholesterolemia is a genetic disorder characterized by abnormally high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in the blood, a significant modifiable risk factor for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Familial hypercholesterolemia is underdiagnosed and undertreated. A novel machine learning algorithm identified ...

High blood cholesterol level is one of the major risk factors for heart disease. If the cholesterol level is too high, it can be deposited in tissues, specifically, the arteries, causing them to ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Laurence Sperling, MD: Welcome to the Medscape InDiscussion podcast series on dyslipidemia. This is the first of six episodes. To launch this series today, ...

Current genetic screening guidelines fail to identify most people with an inherited condition known as familial hypercholesterolemia that can cause dangerously high cholesterol and early heart disease ...

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is characterized by the accumulation of excess cholesterol in tissues including the artery wall and tendons. We describe a patient with homozygous FH who presented ...