If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a ...

Compared with high-intensity statin therapy, moderate intensity statin therapy plus ezetimibe was equally effective in preventing CV events among patients undergoing PCI. Moderate-intensity statin ...

Statins are among the most commonly prescribed medications for reducing high cholesterol and lowering the risk of heart attack and stroke. People searching for popular statin medications are often ...

How secondary prevention statins are given to push LDL cholesterol levels lower, whether in a high-intensity statin regimen or by dosage titration to meet LDL targets, may make little difference to ...

Patients who received high-intensity statin therapy had a 23% elevated risk for developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) compared to those on low-intensity statins, the results of a large study showed. In ...

Statin therapy demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in the risk for new-onset diabetes, especially among individuals already at high risk for diabetes. Higher doses of statin therapy moderately ...

Atorvastatin can lower LDL cholesterol by 50% or more when taken in high doses. Simvastatin can lower LDL cholesterol by up ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31 (UPI) --Doctors are routinely "underdosing" statins for patients at risk for heart attacks and strokes due to elevated levels of "bad" cholesterol, even though the drugs have ...