Statins are used extensively to ward off heart attacks and strokes in middle-aged people, supported by strong evidence from clinical trials. But the evidence to back their use in older adults ...

A study of adults aged 60 years and older found that the use of statin therapy as primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) ...

Older adults who have other serious medical conditions or take many different medications that could potentially interfere with statins will have less to gain and more to lose with statin therapy.

Older adults who have other serious medical conditions or take many different medications that could potentially interfere with statins will have less to gain and more to lose with statin therapy.

This finding may mean that patients profit even more from statin use than previously thought... Approximately 10–20% of white adults in developed countries have gallstones, and gallstone disease ...

Today, 22 percent of Americans 45 years and older take a cholesterol ... for people who have already had one. Statin use has been studied predominately in adult populations and, while there ...

Aims: The most controversial change appears to have been the inclusion of statins as potential firstline pharmacologic agents in older children ... after one week of use and the effect is maximal ...

To estimate that risk, doctors use equations that include different ... is maintained as the starting point for statin treatment, then 17.3 million adults who were previously recommended primary ...

Older adults who have other serious medical conditions or take many different medications that could potentially interfere with statins will have less to gain and more to lose with statin therapy.