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HDL

Start early to reduce Alzheimer’s risk

Embracing a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle in your 30s may promote better brain development in later years.

Expert tips for wrangling cholesterol

While there’s no silver bullet to achieve lower levels, experts suggest a focus on lifestyle.

Top 10 cholesterol-busters

Simple, subtle changes to your diet could help protect you from heart disease and stroke.

Balance cholesterol naturally

Learn how to maintain the right level of the good stuff—and how to lower the bad stuff.

Cholesterol 101: What you need to know

Underestimate the importance of diet, activity and family history at your own risk.

The wonders of EVOO

A dietitian explores the many health benefits olive oil brings to your meals.

Science probes mutant cholesterol gene

Researchers are beginning to pin down the underlying genetics of a hereditary heart disease that causes high levels of LDL.

When ‘good’ cholesterol is bad for older women

How high is "too high" when it comes to HDL cholesterol?

Get the 411 on healthy fats for healthy blood lipids

What fat types should you be focused on?

Study: Focus on lifestyle, then HDL

Researchers say cholesterol levels are markers of other things—such as poorer health.

Don’t throw out your statins

Cardiologist questions study claiming “bad” cholesterol doesn’t affect mortality in older adults.