High cholesterol causes plaque build-up that can block arteries and lead to a greater risk of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. If you want to keep your heart healthy, it's important to ...

Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations announced new cholesterol-lowering guidelines. Central to the recommendations is a new online calculator meant to measure the risk of heart attack ...

Last week, a new heart risk calculator was launched with great fanfare. This week, it’s under fire. For patients long frustrated by the sometimes whiplash-inducing back and forth of health ...

Unless you been living under a rock in the U.S., you’re well aware that a joint panel of experts from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association has crafted a new set of ...

A new online calculator meant to measure cholesterol risk — rolled out just last week by the nation’s leading heart organizations along with new cholesterol-lowering guidelines — is so riddled with ...

The revamped American Heart Association tool offers a surprising look at the issues that make cardiovascular disease the ...

Today's New York Times reports that two Boston-based cardiologists have spotted flaws in the online calculator for assessing who should be treated with cholesterol-reducing statin drugs. The Times ...

SAN ANTONIO — Those with concerns about heart health would be wise to steer clear of a new risk calculator developed by two leading heart organizations. The calculator, developed by the American Heart ...

Apparent problems with an online calculator, released last week along with new cholesterol guidelines, prompted one expert Monday to suggest implementation of the guidelines be postponed. The risk ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a new way to calculate low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol that can lead to hardening of arteries and boost the risk of heart attack and stroke.If ...

Dr. Yancy: Let's move forward. What are the 4 groups that were identified as the people in whom we should consider statin therapy for prevention (without question)? Dr. Robinson: First, the vast ...

Researchers have developed a more accurate way to calculate low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the so-called “bad” form of blood fat that can lead to hardening of the arteries and increase the ...