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

NICE has set a new ... s cholesterol levels were lowered. Earlier this year, NICE also introduced guidance to encourage the use of statins, lowering the threshold for prescribing these drugs ...

Past studies have suggested that taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may lower individuals' risk of developing liver ...

Other groups are patients who have known heart disease and are on high dose statins and still can’t get their cholesterol down ... that you would see with this new therapy versus the patient ...

those who need cholesterol-lowering medication and those who do not. The second group will generally be advised to adopt ...

No one yet knows how extensively new cholesterol-lowering drugs will improve upon statins. One major question ... due to both cholesterol lowering and non-cholesterol effects,” or what are ...

The body needs some cholesterol to maintain good health. But for those who need to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, statin drugs lower ... analysis in the New England Journal of ...

The seniors in the study were switched to non-statin cholesterol medications, and their symptoms subsided ... Bempedoic acid (Nexlotol) is a new cholesterol medicine with much less risk of muscle ...