Why “normal range” doesn’t always mean healthy on your lab results Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel ...

Your doctor orders blood work annually, reviews the results, and then declares everything looks fine. But which numbers ...

Americans are inundated almost on a daily basis by information about the dangers of cholesterol. Still, an estimated 102 million adults in the U.S. have a cholesterol level putting them at risk for ...

High cholesterol causes plaque build-up that can block arteries and lead to a greater risk of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. If you want to keep your heart healthy, it's important to ...

There’s a good reason why high cholesterol is known as a “silent killer”. In most cases it has no symptoms but potentially ...

People whose LDL cholesterol is in the normal range—even those without metabolic risk factors—may yet have levels of apolipoprotein B (apoB) that predict an elevated risk of future atherosclerotic ...

One of my patients complained that clinicians “are making the whole country sick. Everyone is abnormal.” Laboratories don’t report values based on the normal curve anymore. Instead, a normal level is ...