A regular cholesterol test is useful, but it doesn't always capture the complete picture of heart disease risk.

Are your cholesterol labs actually "fine"? Learn why these numbers matter and what they reveal about your long-term heart health.

ApoB testing may be especially useful for people with diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease or high triglycerides.

You get your cholesterol checked at your annual physical, and a few days later, you get back your results. If you've ever looked down the list of acronyms and felt at a loss of how to make sense of ...

A standard cholesterol panel doesn’t tell the whole story. It measures total cholesterol, LDL (“bad” cholesterol), HDL (“good” cholesterol) and triglycerides. That gives a general idea of how much ...

Apolipoprotein B, or apoB, is gaining attention as researchers and cardiologists weigh whether the blood marker offers a more accurate window into heart disease risk than the standard LDL cholesterol ...

For decades, we’ve been told that high cholesterol is the main villain behind heart disease. Most of us breathe a sigh of relief when our blood reports show normal LDL levels. We assume our arteries ...