Findings of a new study suggest that the quality of LDL and HDL cholesterol, rather than their quantity, is more important in ...

A study published by researchers from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) and the Stroke Unit of Sant Pau Hospital in the Journal of Lipid Research provides new evidence on the essential ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the so-called 'good cholesterol', after findings suggest that it may not be entirely ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) -- commonly known as bad cholesterol -- have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease. But these microscopic troublemakers have hidden ...

Head, Section on Lipoproteins, Laboratory of Molecular Diseases, National Heart Institute. § Assistant professor and associate physician, Rockefeller University. Select the format you want to ...

Although cholesterol and TG serve several important functions within the body, they are insoluble particles and must be packaged into lipoproteins in order to circulate in the plasma, from sites ...

HDLs are high-density lipoproteins. The role of HDL is to transport excess cholesterol from the rest of the body to the liver for elimination from the body. LDLs are low-density lipoproteins.

Some of the components of the chylomicrons are "repackaged" into other lipoproteins, for example, some apolipoproteins are transferred to HDL, and the remaining chylomicron remnant particles are ...