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

New guidelines recommend considering cholesterol-lowering statins in the 30s, screening all adults for hidden risk factors ...

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.

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and ...

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

Millions more adults should consider starting cholesterol-lowering medications earlier to reduce their risk of heart attack and stroke, according to new medical guidance.

Major medical organizations updated the cholesterol playbook for the first time in years, with new risk tools, lower targets and earlier treatment recommendations.

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 ...

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

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.

Just three years ago, updated cholesterol guidelines almost tripled the number of Americans for whom cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are recommended to 36 million, or one out of five adults. Statins ...