Researchers say babies who are breastfed often grow up to have lower blood pressure and cholesterol as adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

Dr. Ornish's diet plan limits daily calories from fat to less than ten percent, with little to no saturated fat or cholesterol.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

High blood pressure and high cholesterol levels in blood can increase your risk of heart disease.

VOA: special.2011.06.28

It contains aspirin, a drug to lower cholesterol and three medicines to lower blood pressure.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

The study showed that Polycap lowered blood pressure and cholesterol without many side effects.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes or being severely overweight.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

"The blood vessel wall, when it becomes thickened and the lining is disturbed, is more sensitive to the effects of cholesterol deposition.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"It's a risk factor in a similar way that elevated cholesterol is a risk factor for heart disease."

VOA: standard.2010.03.09

"Just like eating a high fat diet can increase your levels of triglycerides and cholesterol, eating sugar can also affect those same lipids."

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Reducing saturated fats may reduce cholesterol, but low fat diets alone don't seem to do much to actually reduce clogged arteries and heart attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

But the researcher says their effect on cholesterol may be part of the answer.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"because the fat mass can induce changes that are metabolically bad, like an increase in glucose or insulin, also an increase in fat,blood fats, like triglycerides or cholesterol."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

"About 48 percent of this reduction was associated with improvements in risk factors, so for instance there was a reduction in blood pressure and total cholesterol, (and) in smoking."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"So for example, dietary fats also actually, in many cases, improve HDL cholesterol, the good cholesterol, compared to carbohydrates, and they actually lower triglycerides, a type of blood lipid which is associated with harm."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25