Sugar seems simple. It tastes sweet, provides energy and appears in everything from apples and milk to soft drinks and birthday cakes. But not all sugars are chemically identical. Glucose,…

It is one of the most counterintuitive moments in cardiovascular medicine: you start taking a statin, your LDL cholesterol drops beautifully, but a follow-up Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) scan shows…

One surprising fact is that cholesterol is found only in foods from animals. Plants do not contain cholesterol. However, that’s only part of the story. For many people, the foods…

The idea that a diabetes diagnosis is an absolute, one-way street is one of the biggest misconceptions in modern health. While Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition requiring lifelong…

In cardiovascular medicine, a stent is a tiny, expandable wire mesh tube. It is used to prop open an artery that has become severely narrowed or blocked by plaque buildup,…