In a small number of people who are not diabetic but who have ... about adding the more powerful non-statin drugs. Of course, even people on cholesterol-lowering medication should improve the ...
Around two in five of the UK population may suffer from high cholesterol or hypercholesterolemia. While many patients are prescribed statins to ... states they do not lower cholesterol but rather ...
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 ...
Diet and exercise may not achieve LDL-C goals ... especially in high-risk patients. Cholesterol-lowering drugs include the statins, bile acid sequestrants (BASs), fibrates and ezetimibe.
The mean LDL-C level on treatment was 23% lower ... statins was well tolerated in both TNT and IDEAL, although rates of so-called "serious" adverse effects not leading to discontinuation of ...