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Get Your Cholesterol Checked: Quick Guide to Healthy Living
Adults age 20 and older should get their cholesterol checked with a simple blood test at least once every 5 years. Lowering your cholesterol can reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke – and can... Details >
National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Live Healthier, Live Longer: Lowering Cholesterol for the Person with Heart Disease (Interactive Web Site)
If you have heart disease or are at risk for heart disease, visit this interactive site and find out how you can lower your cholesterol. Discover your daily allowance of saturated fat, total fat, chol... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Be Heart Smart! Eat Foods Lower in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
Food plays a big part in the lives of most African Americans. Good food and celebrations go hand in hand. Yet, the traditional ways of frying foods and using fats for seasoning can increase your ris... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
Cholesterol Quiz 
Take this online health quiz and find out how much you know about cholesterol levels, smart ways to reduce cholesterol intake, and which foods are high in cholesterol.... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Cholesterol Reduction Calculator
Answer 10 questions to learn your risk of developing heart disease.... Details >
Empower Yourself! Learn Your Cholesterol Number
High blood cholesterol increases your chances for coronary heart disease. Coronary heart disease is a disease of the blood vessels of the heart that causes a heart attack. This brochure provides steps... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
Estimate Your Heart Attack Risk
This risk assessment tool uses information from the Framingham Heart Study to predict a person’s chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years. This tool is designed for adults aged 20 and olde... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Heart and Vascular Diseases Information for Patients and the General Public
This web site links visitors to many resources related to cardiovascular diseases. Includes: consumer health information booklets - some in Spanish -on high blood pressure, obesity and cholesterol; re... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
High Blood Cholesterol--What You Need to Know
Find out what your cholesterol numbers mean and what treatment your doctor may prescribe to help lower your cholesterol level. Includes a tool to estimate the risk for having a heart attack, and outli... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
Learn Your Cholesterol Number
Also available in: Spanish
This publication is part of a set of booklets that present key steps that Latinos can take to reduce their chances of having a heart attack or stroke. Written in a friendly English/Spanish side-by-sid... Details >
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health