Have you had a blood test to check your cholesterol level? These check the different blood fat components: total cholesterol LDL (low-density lipoprotein), which is sometimes called “bad cholesterol” ...

The goal of this observational study was to evaluate low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol as a risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD) in comparison with the ratio of non-high-density ...

The ratio of two forms of apolipoprotein in the blood is substantially better at predicting heart attack risk than the standard method of using cholesterol ratios. Measuring apolipoprotein ratios ...

Cholesterol, found in our blood and in the food we eat, is a misunderstood compound that we have been instructed and cautioned for decades to fear. We have been told that if we eat cholesterol, then ...

A higher serum uric acid to HDL ratio may indicate a greater preclinical inflammatory burden, according to investigators. A high serum uric acid to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) ratio ...

High-density lipoprotein cholesterol/low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C/LDL-C) ratio of 0.4 to 0.6 was associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction ...

While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one-third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the past five years. Getting your cholesterol tested — ...