Since the NCEP Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines were published (Journal Watch Cardiology Jun 15 2001), outcomes after use of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been studied in several major trials.

De Ferranti, who also is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, was part of an American Heart ...

New guidelines from the American Stroke Association aim to reduce the risk of stroke, a condition that affects more than half ...

Current guidelines only offer it as an option for certain high-risk patients. As a result, most patients and even many ...

Those guidelines support the idea of checking for a cholesterol abnormality once between ages 9 and 11 and again once between ages 17 and 21, de Ferranti said. Earlier screenings, as early as age ...