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Heart health information about angina, arrhythmia, healthy eating, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart failure, ECG and more in Welsh

Some people are born with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a genetic condition where your liver can’t process cholesterol properly. Learn more about FH, including the signs and symptoms, tests and treatments.

The SHARP trial tested whether taking medication to lower cholesterol levels could reduce cardiovascular risk for people with chronic kidney disease.

Courtney shares her experience of the menopause, how it affected her and her cholesterol.

Our research helped to prove that lowering blood cholesterol using statins prevent the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Statins are medicines that help lower your cholesterol and protect your arteries. Understand what statins do, and are used for, the pros and cons, their side effects and potential alternatives.

Reducing the nation’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels helped prevent over 20,000 people from dying prematurely from coronary heart disease according to a new study.

Find out how much you really know about statins and cholesterol with our quiz.

Anyone can develop high cholesterol as they age, but FH is a genetic condition, passed on to you by one of your parents. Professor Steve Humphries explains in this article

A proposed collaboration between the NHS and pharmaceutical company Novartis to study cholesterol-lowering drug could save 30,000 lives over the next 10 years