The 1970 group also had lower levels of blood cholesterol.

In both men and women, blood cholesterol starts going up after age 20.

High blood cholesterol is one of the major risk factors for heart disease.

What are the steps you can take to reduce your high blood cholesterol?

The normal range for total blood cholesterol is less than 200 mg.

He also had high blood cholesterol, often in the range of 300, once at 410, which is twice the level now considered desirable.

But the treatment had another potentially important benefit: the women's blood cholesterol fell by 15 percent.

Having heart disease, high blood cholesterol, or diabetes also puts you at risk.

Diet changes and, if necessary, drugs can be used to keep blood cholesterol at an acceptable level.

Saturated fat raises your blood cholesterol more than anything else you eat.