It’s a familiar ritual, the regular cholesterol test. You wake up and skip breakfast – not even coffee – and sit blearily in the exam room, looking at the ceiling as the phlebotomist slides a needle ...

His lipid panel results from August showed a low-density-lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol value of 173 mg/dL. The National Cholesterol Education Program recommends an LDL cholesterol concentration of ...