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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.

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

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.

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

We fact-check newspaper reports on a new study that suggest statins reduce the risk of dementia as well as lowering cholesterol.

The STASH trial tested whether cholesterol lowering drugs could help people who have experienced a haemorrhagic stroke.

The first drug treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms could be on the horizon after research we part funded found that cholesterol lowering drugs might help to slow their growth.

tatins are medicines that help lower your cholesterol and protect your arteries. It’s normal to worry about taking statins and to want more information on what they do, their side effects and potential alternatives.

High levels of dietary cholesterol, like those found in eggs, are linked to an increased risk of heart and circulatory disease, or even death, according to a new study published in JAMA.