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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Cholesterol-lowering statins such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Crestor (rosuvastatin calcium) are among the most widely prescribed drugs on the market today. Their purpose is to lower blood ...

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

There haven’t been many studies about starting statins in people as old as you. However, I can tell you that an 84-year-old ...

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 ...

[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 ...

Several nonstatin drugs, including ezetimibe ... the results of trials with agents that do not also lower LDL-cholesterol. As a complement to the statins, there are a variety of pharmacological ...