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

Pharmacy benefits manager CVS Health has warned that the new PCSK9 inhibitor class of cholesterol-lowering drugs poses an unprecedented challenge to the US healthcare system. In a blog post ...

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 ...

The researchers hope the breakthrough will help scientists cure a genetic disorder that increases the likelihood of dying from coronary artery disease at a young age.

New Precision Medicine Approach Helps Detect ... Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes ...

Scientists have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how 'bad' cholesterol, known as low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol or LDL-C, builds up in the body. The researchers were able to show ...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may soon be routinely prescribed to ... patients unless they have high cholesterol levels. But the new findings show they can benefit people with diabetes even when ...

Women are 80% more likely to report that they don’t take cholesterol-lowering medications as prescribed, a new study shows.

This disrupts the parasite's ability to control its cholesterol levels, potentially killing it. This breakthrough is a big ...

Women who have had strokes may be more likely than men to skip doses of medications that could help prevent a second stroke, ...

Houston Methodist researchers have discovered that certain components of so-called "good" cholesterol -- high-density ...