A straightforward £5 blood test could accurately allow doctors to predict someone’s risk of heart attacks and strokes in the ...

If you have high levels of 'bad' cholesterol, you typically won't see any symptoms, making it a silent but dangerous risk ...

A blood test that can spot "silent heart muscle damage" should be used more widely to predict risk of heart attacks and ...

The test would look for a protein called troponin, which is found in heart muscle cells and is released into the bloodstream ...

A simple £5 blood test for the protein troponin could predict a person's risk of heart attacks and strokes with greater accuracy than ever before, research suggests.

Many people think all cholesterol is bad, but that is not the case. With so many conflicting messages and advice out there, it can be hard to make sense of it all. So experts have broken down the ...

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High blood pressure typically doesn't present any noticeable symptoms on its own, until it leads to severe health problems such as heart disease, stroke and kidney disease. These checks can be ...

High blood pressure usually doesn’t have any identifiable symptoms on its own, until it causes life-threatening issues like ...

High blood pressure usually doesn’t have any identifiable symptoms on its own, until it causes life-threatening issues like ...

Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment.