In January 1977, five landmark health surveys, led by the famous Framingham Heart Study, reported a “striking” revelation about HDL cholesterol—a.k.a. the “good cholesterol.” The higher the HDL in a ...

The principal novel finding of this study is that lifelong low levels of HDL cholesterol due to genetic variation in HDL cholesterol–related genes are not associated with the increased risk of type 2 ...

Abnormal lipid levels may contribute to the development of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), according to results from a new mendelian randomization analysis, with investigators reporting that ...

Associations of serum lipids with cholelithiasis from Mendelian randomization. (A) Causal effects of genetically−lowered lipids on cholelithiasis. (B) Results of multivariable Mendelian randomization ...

Obesity related to metabolic syndrome was found to have a causal relationship with colorectal cancer (CRC), although this causal relationship did not exist in the opposite direction. A study published ...