In a recent study published in the Scientific Reports Journal, researchers from Japan conducted a longitudinal study investigating the association between white blood cell count and hypercholesteremia ...

An experimental pill called enlicitide slashed levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, commonly known as "bad" ...

As part of "heart health month," we're looking at lipoprotein (a). For decades, doctors have encouraged patients to monitor their cholesterol levels, with studies showing that heart disease risk ...

When acute anemia occurs, very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL), which are involved in lipid transport, are broken down, releasing apolipoprotein E (ApoE). ApoE binds to its receptor (VLDLR) present on ...

As clinicians, we know that lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) with statins alone or in combination with nonstatin therapies such as a proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 ...

Over a century of epidemiologic studies and randomized trials have definitively established the causal role of cholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis. Total cholesterol, and later ...

Familial Hypobetalipoproteinemia (FHBL), caused by variants in the apolipoprotein B (APOB) gene, is a rare autosomal co-dominant monogenic disorder characterized by lifelong low plasma levels of total ...