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

Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) account for an estimated 1.79 crore deaths annually, with over 80% of these fatalities attributed to heart attacks and strokes, according to the World Health ...

I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn't smoke, and has a BMI about 25.

Without robust evidence of benefits of primary prevention statin use in women with elevated cholesterol, and some evidence of cardiac risk for some statins or subgroups of women, the cardiology ...

Statin drugs are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. They are used to lower cholesterol and reduce ...

Most statin drugs are FDA-approved for children and teens under age 18, but only if they have a genetic condition that cause extremely high levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol. Yet in 2009 ...

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. But for those who need to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, statin drugs lower the level of "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipo ...

More than a quarter of Americans over the age of 40 are taking a statin. But what happens if you are statin-intolerant?

A research team led by Hong Soon-joon, Cha Jung-joon, and Kim Joo-hyun of the Department of Circulatory Mechanics at Korea ...

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

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 ...