American Heart Association: Explains what HDL and LDL cholesterol are, desirable levels, personal risk factors, and types of treatments.
Ask the Dietitian: Question and answer format about cholesterol and saturated fat.
Bupa: Concise fact sheet explaining the causes, symptoms and treatment of cholesterol. Available for down loading in Adobe acrobat format.
Eat Fat, Be Healthy: Information about genetically-caused heart disease due to small-particle LDL syndrome. Includes questions and answers, book excerpt and cardiac risk quiz.
Fish Oils and Cholesterol/Triglycerides: Summaries of research concerning fish oils and serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
Focus on Cholesterol: List of resources for patients experiencing elevated cholesterol levels. Explanation of its role in heart disease.
For Your Health - High Cholesterol Risks: High cholesterol, lipids, lipoproteins, LDL HDL, triglycerides, and metabolic syndrome. Offers answers as to what it all means, and how to treat it.
Good News in Cholesterol: Offers information on how to maintain healthy cholesterol levels. With cholesterol calculation tools and healthy recipes, users learn how lead a healthy lifestyle vital in the prevention of heart disease and stroke.
How Stuff Works: Doctor-written seven-part description of cholesterol and how to avoid its health problems.
InteliHealth: Cholesterol: Includes basic information, treatment options, and an ask-the-expert section. Reviewed by Harvard Medical School.
Lipid Clinic: For the public and healthcare professionals to learn about the evaluation and treatment of high cholesterol and lipid abnormalities.
MDchoice.com: In four sections: Informs as to why blood cholesterol matters, guidelines for heart healthy living, cholesterol in children and fats and foods tables.
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: In-depth look at cholesterol and why it matters, heart disease, benefits from lowering, having it checked, diet, exercise, weight and many more topics are discussed.
Rose Medical Center - High Cholesterol: An article about cholesterol, discussing the interpretation of the numbers, good and bad cholesterol as well as how to fight it when it is high.
Ruchi Health.com: Cholesterol: Learn about its sources, its effects, and its roles in the body. Also know about how soya helps to check high cholesterol.
The Cholesterol Myths: Review of this issue, written by an independent researcher, Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD.
The Healthy Refrigerator: Nutritional advice and information to reduce risk of heart problems or manage heart conditions. Recipes, foods suggestions, facts about heart disease.
THINCS - The International Network Of Cholesterol Skeptics: An association of scientists, science writers, physicians, and other academically trained individuals who are skeptical to the cholesterol hypothesis.
US Food and Drug Administration: Information regarding keeping cholesterol under control. An article by John Henkel.
VAP Cholesterol Test - Atherotech: Information about the Vertical Auto Profile cholesterol test, which identifies twice as many people at risk than the traditional test, including those with inherited risk factors.
WebMDHealth: Cholesterol Management Health Center: Consumer health site for cholesterol, written and reviewed by doctors.
When to Start Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A statement for health care professionals from the American Heart Association task force on risk reduction.