DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a woman in my late 60s with a family history that includes an older brother who had a heart attack at a young age. My total cholesterol has hovered around 200 mg/dL for many years ...

The metabolic syndrome is increasingly found in a substantial and rising proportion of the US population and is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease events (acute coronary ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a woman in my late 60s with a family history that includes an older brother who had a heart attack at a young age. My total cholesterol has hovered around 200 mg/dL for many years ...

June 24, 2010 (Hamburg, Germany) - Patients at high to moderate risk of cardiovascular disease should be screened for elevated levels of lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) and take niacin to bring their Lp(a) ...

Q: I have followed a healthy lifestyle for decades and, yet, I still had a heart attack. It turns out that I inherited very high Lp(a) levels. My doctors did not know much about this cardiac risk ...

After more than a century of battling heart disease as the number one killer of Americans, you would think we’d know all about it. For a good part of the 20th century, cardiologists thought they had ...

Niacin metabolism was associated with incident major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) and may be linked to the pathogenesis of heart disease via inflammatory pathways, researchers said. In a ...

Lipoprotein(a) appears to be an egalitarian risk factor, with high levels tied to an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in a wide range of primary-prevention patients, ...