New national guidelines are changing how doctors approach cholesterol and heart disease prevention. Health experts are now ...
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While healthy lifestyle intervention and average cholesterol screening should start in childhood, the updated guidelines now ...
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Heart health experts released new guidance to help identify early risk factors for heart disease that go beyond tracking ...
New guidelines for managing cholesterol call for a more aggressive preventive approach, which could translate into more Americans being treated with medicines and a stronger focus on lifestyle.