A combination therapy of two drugs — a statin and a protein inhibitor — may help suppress the creation and growth of tumors ...

For those who can’t tolerate statins or need additional help managing cholesterol, a new drug, bempedoic acid, offers hope.

Statins: For statins, the side effects can be surprising. Some people taking these medications have been found to gain weight ...

Statin-associated reductions in LDL-cholesterol levels are known to be disproportionate to reductions in apolipoprotein B levels. Ballantyne and colleagues, therefore, studied the relationship ...

and their relationship to the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. Available data in elderly patients are reviewed, as are the adverse effects of the different statins and the statin ...

Without robust evidence of benefits of primary prevention statin use in women with elevated cholesterol, and some evidence of cardiac risk for some statins or subgroups of women, the cardiology ...

My yearly wellness test was excellent, except my cholesterol and ... conditions or take many different medications that could potentially interfere with statins will have less to gain and more ...

Keith Krawiec, who, on my first visit, recommended that I take a low dose of a statin drug to improve my cholesterol profile. What? Wait! Hold on! My diet was pristine, and I exercised daily.

You will often hear doctors and dietitians talk about two different “types” of cholesterol — low-density lipoprotein ... So, an elevated LDL cholesterol level is a major risk factor for heart disease ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in the journal NEJM Evidence found no association between exposure to very low cholesterol levels achieved with PCSK9 inhibition and statin therapy and ...