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.

Cholesterol-lowering drugs may soon be routinely prescribed to people with diabetes, it emerged today. The Government promised to act upon the findings of a major study, which showed that more ...

Statins are widely prescribed to lower high cholesterol, a key factor in preventing heart attacks and strokes. Among these ...

What if your elevated cholesterol levels don't drop despite your best efforts? Then it's time to rethink your strategy, tighten it up - and perhaps resort to some help from medications.

A health expert has shared his top tip for managing cholesterol levels - and it's all down to a specific vitamin ...

The FDA approved them to be used with dietary modifications to reduce LDL levels ("bad") cholesterol in the bloodstream. Last year, Lipitor was the most popular branded drug in the U.S., with over ...

This diet has been hailed before as one way to lose weight and prevent diabetes but new evidence suggests it could also cause ...

Lifestyle changes alone may not be enough to reduce cholesterol, and if you have raised levels you may be prescribed medication, usually statins, which Heart UK says can reduce your non-HDL ...