A combination therapy of two drugs — a statin and a protein inhibitor — may help suppress the creation and growth of tumors ...

For those who can’t tolerate statins or need additional help managing cholesterol, a new drug, bempedoic acid, offers hope.

Although the ACC/AHA guidelines recommend a different strategy ... with agents that do not also lower LDL-cholesterol. As a complement to the statins, there are a variety of pharmacological ...

Statins: For statins, the side effects can be surprising. Some people taking these medications have been found to gain weight ...

(Read on for more detailed information in our most recent Best Buy Drug report on use of statins in adults to lower cholesterol.) But the situation is different with children. Statins approved by ...

Statin-associated reductions in LDL-cholesterol levels are known to be disproportionate to reductions in apolipoprotein B levels. Ballantyne and colleagues, therefore, studied the relationship ...

The patient asked: "I have high cholesterol, but when I tried statins, I didn't like the side ... each contribute to lowering ...

They are effective at lowering cholesterol and therefore perceived to be the most valuable tool in ... This may additionally explain why the rate of side effects in statin trials is wildly different ...

Now that we know that your cholesterol ... been done with statins over 3, 4, 5 years of follow up, is that the amount of patients that actually have a problem is not all that different from ...

Michael Mosley talks to two experts with very different opinions on whether we should take statins to reduce our risk of a heart attack or stroke. Statins reduce so-called ‘bad cholesterol’ or ...

A Different Interpretation of the Evidence The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaboration was established in 1994 ...