A specific pattern of proteins in the blood may reflect an increased risk of hereditary atherosclerosis. This is shown in a ...

A specific pattern of proteins in the blood may reflect an increased risk of hereditary atherosclerosis. This is shown in a ...

A promising “two-in-one” experimental drug could tackle both type 2 diabetes and heart disease by slashing cholesterol and ...

The prevalence of overweight and obesity has reached pandemic proportions, affecting more than 1 billion people worldwide; it ...

Prior to 1990, many assumed that once cholesterol plaques form in the arteries causing atherosclerosis, it was not reversible. While this is true for plaques that have calcified, what about plaques in ...

In patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease, the addition of anacetrapib to intensive statin therapy for a median duration of 4 years significantly reduced the incidence of major coronary events ...

Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped our ancestors survive and reproduce. That's the ...

Researchers examined effects of walking timespan on heart disease risk. They concluded walking for this long makes a ...

Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a heterogeneous disorder characterised by persistent, abnormal eosinophil elevation in ...

A new study found a link between vitamin D and heart disease. Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency are both common. Vitamin D is found in few foods, but it is produced with skin exposure to sunlight ...