Low cholesterol 'link' to cancer
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People who significantly cut their cholesterol levels with statins may raise the risk of cancer, a study says.
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The notion that doctors may one day be able to detect cancer as they do cholesterol, in mere drops of blood, is no longer a pipe dream.
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Science & environment: People with diabetes could benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, scientists say
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Scientists find novel genes linked with 'bad' cholesterol, paving the way for therapies to treat the risk.
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NEW YORK  - For people with low levels of  "good" (HDL) cholesterol and coronary disease, treatment aimed  at increasing HDL levels is worthwhile, researchers report.
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Diabetes patients often neglect the most important treatment for saving lives: lowering cholesterol.
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After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, men are capable of adhering to a low-fat diet for at least a year if they receive good counseling and support, a new study shows.
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A large new study has concluded that measuring the number of lipoprotein particles in the blood may be a better way to predict a person&#39;s heart attack risk than measuring simple cholesterol.
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs can lower the death risk of stroke patients, claim researchers.
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SAN ANTONIO -- The first experiment ever to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, with longer follow-up, that the benefit was almost exclusively to women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.
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Reducing the levels of a protein secreted during inflammation may be as powerful in slowing heart disease as lower cholesterol.
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Being obese or even overweight may increase a person's risk of developing up to a dozen different types of cancer, European researchers report in a new study.
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Gene mutations linked to breast cancer may pose less danger than previously believed, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - A low-carbohydrate diet can  help severely obese people improve their cholesterol levels,  and it may curb markers of inflammation better than a  reduced-fat diet, preliminary research suggests.
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11/4/04- While fruits and vegetables seem to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new report finds they are not much help fighting cancer.
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We hear plenty about the dangers of high cholesterol levels, but low levels apparently confer their own risks. Naturally low cholesterol levels are associated with poorer performance on a variety of cognitive measures, according to a new study.
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Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said Friday. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.