Cholesterol: You can't live with (too much of) it, but you can't live without it. High levels are a risk factor for heart disease, yet we need this fat-like substance--manufactured by the liver and ...

Which is why, she said, young adults should understand a few cholesterol basics. What is cholesterol? Cholesterol is a waxy substance found throughout the body. It's used to build cells and make ...

Cholesterol often gets a bad reputation, but the story is more nuanced than "cholesterol = bad." Sure, too much LDL cholesterol in your blood can be harmful for your heart, but the cholesterol your ...

Over a century of epidemiologic studies and randomized trials have definitively established the causal role of cholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis. Total cholesterol, and later ...

Heather Bowers doesn't recall all the details of her first cholesterol screening. It was at a college health fair two decades ago, and even though her numbers came back "borderline high," she ...

Cholesterol is a key building block for testosterone. Through a process called steroidogenesis, cholesterol sets the stage for testosterone creation in the Leydig cells found in the testes.