Cardiology groups say adults as young as 30 should assess cholesterol risk and consider treatment to prevent heart attacks ...

New ACC/AHA guidelines urge earlier cholesterol screening and treatment, focusing on lifetime heart risks.

The recommendations come from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association, whose guidance is widely ...

ACC/AHA guidance also gives boost to non-cholesterol tests ...

The ACC and AHA released updated guidelines for the management of dyslipidemia to reduce risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

The AHA urges doctors to begin screening and treating patients who are still in their 30s, well before the risks of a heart attack and stroke are higher.

The test can help assess your lifetime risk for cardiovascular disease. That, along with earlier treatment for high cholesterol, is part of new doctors' guidelines.

For primary prevention patients at high risk, such as those with a 10-year risk > 10%, the LDL target is less than 70 mg/dL (class 2a recommendation). For this group, treatment begins with a ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association and nine other leading medical associations, today issued an updated guideline for the management of dyslipidemia-abnormal ...

The update was jointly published in the journal Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The recent ...

High cholesterol often develops silently. Some warning signs include chest discomfort and yellowish fatty skin deposits. A ...

The joint guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association call on clinicians to pay more attention to social determinants of health. They were announced Sunday at ...