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

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 ...

The FDA approved them to be used with dietary modifications to reduce LDL levels ("bad") cholesterol in the bloodstream. Last year, Lipitor was the most popular branded drug in the U.S., with over ...

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 ...

the statins differ in their strength and ability to reduce LDL cholesterol at various doses. For example, rosuvastatin (Crestor) and atorvastatin (Lipitor) are the most potent of the statin drugs ...

I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn’t smoke, and has a BMI about 25. (I’m 6 feet, 1 inch tall, at ...

Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment.

I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn’t smoke, and has a BMI about 25.