What you'll learn

  • How can there be “good” and “bad” cholesterol?

  • The best ways to successfully lower bad cholesterol. 

  • How to decrease elevated triglycerides. 

  • How to achieve strengthened and enduring heart health.

  •  Current Cholesterol Guidelines.

  • The Role of Medical Conditions and Medications

Course description

What exactly is cholesterol, and why the concern about elevated triglycerides? How much do you know about "good" cholesterol vs. "bad cholesterol"? Our online course has all the answers. You'll learn who should be tested, when, how often, and what tests are most revealing and most accurate. Most important, you'll discover what can you do to attain and maintain the cholesterol levels most compatible and valuable to improved cardiovascular fitness, greater security from heart attack and stroke, and protection from heart disease.

Instructors

Associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of the Vascular Disease Prevention Program and Director of Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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