Most people leave the doctor's office focused on a single cholesterol number. But a large study published in Lipids in Health and Disease points to a different figure with stronger predictive power.

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The number your doctor wants to see on your next lipid panel depends on who you are, not a one-size-fits-all cutoff.

People whose LDL cholesterol is in the normal range—even those without metabolic risk factors—may yet have levels of apolipoprotein B (apoB) that predict an elevated risk of future atherosclerotic ...

A study found summer food insufficiency rose 4 percentage points among low-income households with children, while first-year Summer EBT participation was low and showed no measurable effect. A small, ...