The knowledge gap between why people with low 'bad' cholesterol levels are still susceptible to heart attacks gets narrower with breakthrough research from a nutritional food scientist suggesting that ...

Scientists have examined many ways to “beige” unhealthy white fat, turning it into energy-burning brown fat to fight obesity. But what if we could stop fat from entering body tissues in the first ...

In a Phase III clinical trial, the drug volanesorsen significantly reduced blood fat (triglyceride) levels in participants with a rare disease called familial chylomicronemia syndrome; finding could ...

The knowledge gap between why people with low 'bad' cholesterol levels are still susceptible to heart attacks could be near to closing with breakthrough research from a nutritional food scientist ...

The familial chylomicronemia syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by severe hypertriglyceridemia and recurrent pancreatitis due to a deficiency in lipoprotein lipase (LPL). Currently, there ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether increasing body mass index (BMI) produces increasingly intense disturbances in the metabolism of chylomicrons, the lipoproteins that carry the dietary lipids absorbed ...

UCLA investigators have identified a new molecule that may help regulate the delivery of fats to cells for energy and storage. Published in the April issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, the finding ...