Cholesterol often gets a bad rap. It’s easy to dismiss it as something ‘out there’, especially when life’s got you flat out.

A comprehensive analysis of chylomicronemia, a rare triglyceride disorder, reveals it affects about 1 in 500 U.S. adults, with persistent cases in 1 in 5,500. Key risk groups include men, those ...

While preparing to go head to head in a rare disease market, the companies have signed up to be the top two sponsors of the newly launched National Triglyceride Alliance (NTA). The biotechs are ...

as in unsaturated fatty acids, or single bonds, as in saturated fatty acids. Fatty acids are generally derived from triglycerides and phospholipids. Dietary fats are generally fatty acids.

It also recommends choosing unsaturated fats and oils and consuming them in small amounts. According to the manual, there are three categories of fats, namely unsaturated fatty acids, saturated fatty ...

Ridges in nails can develop due to a current or past illness or injury. A healthy nail is typically smooth or has barely perceptible vertical lines running from the cuticle to the tip. When there are ...

Although studies have linked a higher consumption of carbohydrates to higher levels of triglycerides and lower levels of HDL—the type of carbohydrates matters. Whole grain carbohydrates have the ...

Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard ...