These hormones can trigger a “fight or flight” response to help manage the stress. This response will then trigger triglycerides, which can boost LDL cholesterol. Stress can also damage the ...

Writing in PNAS, Baxter and colleagues present the first clinical data for a novel mimetic of thyroid hormone (TH) — KB2115 (eprotirome) — demonstrating its ability to lower cholesterol levels ...

Overall, we found that women who took oral hormone therapy tended to have lower cholesterol levels, and this effect persisted over many years. For healthy younger women who are within 10 years of ...