Yes, high levels of cholesterol in the blood increase the risk of heart disease. Yet some people manage to elude heart attacks even when their numbers are high. It could be that the way your body oxidises cholesterol in the blood may point to susceptibility to heart disease. At the University of Southern California in [...]

For many, if not most, men and women, a program of diet, exercise and stress control will bring cholesterol levels under control. But some of us need additional help. The body makes its own cholesterol in the liver and, to a much lesser extent, in the intestine. But some of us make too much, and [...]