Healthy lipid levels are essential to good heart health. This site provides:

  • An overview of the different types of lipids
  • Understanding of why it's important to have levels that are in a healthy range
  • Ideas about how to achieve those levels.

We encourage you to learn all your cholesterol levels and work with a healthcare provider to make sure all your numbers are where they need to be.

Click here to learn about healthy lipid levels and why it's important to manage them properly.

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If your lipids aren't at healthy levels, there are many things you can do to improve them. Click here to learn about healthy changes you can make.

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About The NLA:
National Lipids Association

The National Lipid Association (NLA) is a non-profit membership association that serves physicians, nurses, pharmacists and dietitians who help manage patients with lipid disorders and cardiovascular disease. The NLA represents more than 2,700 members in the United States and provides continuing medical education for physicians and other healthcare professionals to advance professional development and attain certification in clinical lipidology. The NLA's public health mission is to help reduce deaths related to high cholesterol, and the Association defines "clinical lipidology" as "a multidisciplinary branch of medicine focusing on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism and their associated disorders."

This website was made possible by an educational grant from Abbott