Current AHA guidelines call for healthy Americans to bring LDL below 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) of blood, while ...

Yet currently people with the condition are not generally given statins, a class of drug that effectively reduces cholesterol. Guidelines for doctors do not recommend prescribing statins to ...

Statins are widely prescribed medications used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Statin drugs are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. They are used to lower cholesterol and reduce ...

People with high cholesterol taking statins have a higher prevalence of glaucoma than those with elevated cholesterol but not ...

[17] In particular, how can some statins simultaneously lower cholesterol ... The advertising does not disclose that the drug was associated with increased risk to women, not decreased risk ...

The body needs some cholesterol to maintain good health ... women who are pregnant or trying to become pregnant, should not take any statin drug. Women who are breastfeeding should not take ...

medications that lower cholesterol, to help reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, statins alone are not enough to achieve positive outcomes. Various lifestyle changes also come ...

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 ...

Exercise: Aim for 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity per week, like brisk walking or cycling. Stress Reduction: ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in the journal NEJM Evidence found no association between exposure to very low ...