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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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