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 ...
RA: Dr Edelberg, could you please tell us more about the rare genetic mutation that leads to low cholesterol and how we came to our current understanding of this mutation? JE: Human genetic ...
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 ...