Cholesterol

The healthiest ‘buttery’ spreads – and the ones to avoid

Health
Sarah Carter

Are you Team Butter or Team Spread? The relative merits of each have been the subject of slippery debate for decades. And ...

Five people die and more than 100 are hospitalised in Japan ‘after eating cholesterol-lowering supplements’

Business
Robert Johnson

By Emily Stearn, Health Reporter For Mailonline 10:15 29 Mar 2024, updated 10:38 29 Mar 2024 Five people in Japan are believed to ...

Why middle-aged men are sitting on a heart health timebomb

Health
Sarah Carter

Drane accepts that stress may have contributed to his ill-health: he scaled back his work commitments, finally retiring two years ago. “I ...

Fill up on beans, try kimchi and switch to filter coffee

Health
Sarah Carter

By Dr Emily Leeming, Dietitian And Microbiome Scientist 01:25 06 Feb 2024, updated 01:26 06 Feb 2024 Before I began a career ...

‘Good’ cholesterol RAISES dementia risk by 42 percent, study suggests

Health
Sarah Carter

By Alexa Lardieri U.S. Deputy Health Editor Dailymail.Com 21:03 02 Jan 2024, updated 21:37 02 Jan 2024 Despite its name, high levels ...

Calls to test babies for gene fault that makes cholesterol rocket from birth

Health
Sarah Carter

Calls to test toddlers for hypercholesterolaemia, which affects 60k children Rianna Wingett died of heart attack aged just 11 despite being outwardly healthy ...

Now scientists develop a vaccine to lower CHOLESTEROL which is linked to 18m deaths a year

Health
Sarah Carter

By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 18:07 20 Dec 2023, updated 18:10 20 Dec 2023 A vaccine cholesterol vaccine in development ...

It helps protect your heart, but could too much ‘good’ cholesterol be bad for your brain?

Health
Sarah Carter

We know it as ‘good’ cholesterol, but is our understanding of HDL cholesterol all wrong? Should we in fact be worried if ...

NHS to raise statin dosage in bid to slash cholesterol

Health
Sarah Carter

Two million people will be advised to boost their statin dose in order to slash their cholesterol levels under new NHS targets. ...

Heart experts ‘at war’ with GPs over lifesaving jab that can help 300,000 Britons such as Mariella Frostrup by cutting ‘bad’ cholesterol by 50 per cent

Technology
Laura Adams

Only 20,000 patients have been offered the lifechanging injection  The twice-yearly jab slashes the level of so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol by 50%  A ...