A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021 was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and the words were also switched in ...

A new study projects that aligning U.S. cholesterol treatment with clinical guidelines could significantly reduce cardiovascular events nationwide. The study, led by researchers at Baltimore-based ...

U.S. policymakers are increasingly anxious about the integrity of certain government benchmarks, crucial data points that ...

Tens of thousands of people suffer needless heart attacks and strokes every year because they aren't taking ...

Tens of thousands of people suffer needless heart attacks and strokes every year because they aren't taking ...

The lipid-lowering drug prevents plaque from accumulating in the arteries since, when left untreated, this increases your ...

There is one street with an average house price of nearly £1 million more than the second most expensive street ...

Cholesterol is the fat that’s found in our blood. When you don’t have healthy cholesterol levels, you’re more prone to coronary heart disease, heart attacks and strokes. High cholesterol affects 39% ...

In 1970, someone over the age of 65 hospitalized for a heart attack in the United States had about a 60% chance of leaving ...

A comprehensive new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics shows that chronic health conditions are nearly universal among Americans age 85 ...

Elevated cholesterol is a well-documented major risk factor for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease (CHD). [3] It is estimated that more than 1 in 3 (83.6 million) adults in the USA have at ...