Aug. 14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our bodies also need cholesterol to survive.
While lowering LDL cholesterol levels with statin drugs significantly reduces cardiac risk, reducing LDL cholesterol levels with most other kinds of drugs has not been shown definitely to do so.
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 ...