HDL cholesterol may be known as the “good” kind, but a new study suggests high levels of it are not always a good thing for women after menopause. The study, of nearly 1,400 postmenopausal women, ...

There's good news about good cholesterol: A new study in the Archives of Neurology by Columbia University reveals that having high levels of "good" HDL cholesterol may reduce your risk for Alzheimer's ...

LIKE a kind of pharmaceutical Drano, drugs that increase levels of the so-called good, or HDL, cholesterol may soon be able to clear our blood vessels of artery-clogging gunk. About half a dozen ...

IN THE ALPHABET soup of cholesterol, what is more important? LDL, HDL, TG, total cholesterol? It seems as if everyone knows his or her cholesterol numbers – the guy next to you on the stairmaster, the ...

Four to five years ago cholesterol was thought of as a mostly dirty word, with connotations of fat, obesity and disease. But now, thanks to new findings and research, the role of this fatty substance ...

Cholesterol research has come a long way in the past decade. Thanks to new findings, this fatty substance is starting to become better understood. So what exactly is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a waxy ...