{"id":84736,"date":"2018-11-14T20:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-cholesterol-guidelines-for-heart-health-what-you-need-to-know"},"modified":"2018-11-14T20:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:02:34","slug":"new-cholesterol-guidelines-for-heart-health-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/new-cholesterol-guidelines-for-heart-health-what-you-need-to-know","title":{"rendered":"New cholesterol guidelines for heart health: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cholesterol-guidelines-for-heart-health-what-you-need-to-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/109k-heart-attack-bill-slashed-332\/story?id=57527962\" target=\"_blank\">Heart disease<\/a> is the leading cause of death in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, who have medical experts from around the nation on the writing committee, have released updated guidelines on managing cholesterol to minimize the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. The new guidelines advocate for more aggressive treatment with statin therapy and getting LDL cholesterol counts, commonly referred to as \u201cbad cholesterol\u201d to your target level \u2013- in general, less than 100mg\/dL; for those with risk factors, less than 70mg\/dL.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/cholesterol-guidelines-heart-health\/story?id=59147980\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/cholesterol-guidelines-heart-h...d=59147980<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, who have medical experts from around the nation on the writing committee, have released updated guidelines on managing cholesterol to minimize the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death. The new guidelines advocate for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}