There haven’t been many studies about starting statins in people as old as you. However, I can tell you that an 84-year-old ...

Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...

Statins are widely prescribed medications used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Yet currently people with the condition are not generally given statins, a class of drug that effectively reduces cholesterol. Guidelines for doctors do not recommend prescribing statins to ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in the journal NEJM Evidence found no association between exposure to very low ...

People with high cholesterol taking statins have a higher prevalence of glaucoma than those with elevated cholesterol but not ...

The body needs some cholesterol to maintain good health ... women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, should not take any statin drug. Women who are breastfeeding should not take ...

Yet in 2009, pediatricians wrote children in the U.S. at least 2.8 million prescriptions for drugs to lower cholesterol; nearly 2.3 million of them were for statins. (not including prescriptions ...

Fluvastatin (Lescol): This statin is a good option for people who are taking other medications that can interact with statins. It is not as effective at lowering LDL cholesterol as some other ...

[17] In particular, how can some statins simultaneously lower cholesterol ... The advertising does not disclose that the drug was associated with increased risk to women, not decreased risk ...

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents ... Also, the raw data on the efficacy and safety of statins are being kept ...

People with CKD often have risk factors for heart disease, too, which is why medications to control cholesterol ... be prescribed a statin. However, those on dialysis may not necessarily be ...