These trends held true regardless of total LDL cholesterol levels. Importantly, even patients with normal LDL cholesterol levels can have high sdLDL cholesterol. The ARIC study showed that even ...

So even though participants had what is currently considered to be normal cholesterol or LDL, if your CRP was elevated, you benefited as much as people who had other risk factors. Dr. Willerson ...

In addition, niacin modestly lowers LDL-C levels. LDL-C circulates in the blood as a heterogeneous population of various sized particles, with smaller LDL particles widely considered to be more ...