Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive.
Other groups are patients who have known heart disease and are on high dose statins and still can’t get their cholesterol down low enough. Other patients can’t tolerate statins. They can get ...
Well, Oxford University researchers are concentrating on eye disease with the LENS trial and have shown that a drug usually used to lower cholesterol, fenofibrate, reduces the risk of certain ...