RA: Dr Edelberg, could you please tell us more about the rare genetic mutation that leads to low cholesterol and how we came to our current understanding of this mutation? JE: Human genetic ...

Millions of people take statins like Simvastatin (above) to lower their cholesterol levels. Newer PCSK9 inhibitor drugs can drop levels even further. Someone in the United States dies from heart ...

Wider use of cholesterol-lowering drugs could save 10,000 lives each year in the UK, researchers said today. A major British study showed that far more people could benefit from the drugs ...

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Marea’s Phase IIa study enrolled patients with hypertriglyceridemia—too much fat in the blood. The latest results showed the ...

Novartis' cholesterol-lowering drug Leqvio will be made available on the NHS in England and Wales, and could help to prevent up to 30,000 deaths, according to NICE.

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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 ...

The gap in nonadherence was most pronounced for cholesterol-lowering medications, where it was largest between Mexican American women and men. While the study did not examine why participants ...