Two million people will be advised to boost their statin dose in order to slash their cholesterol levels under new NHS targets. The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said the ...

High doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may protect patients from heart attack, but a new analysis of five previous clinical trials finds that they may also increase patients’ risk of ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among adults with atherosclerotic CVD at very high risk, moderate-intensity statin plus ezetimibe combination ...

The newer statins on the market have longer half-lives than the original statins. Alternative dosing schedules using once-, twice- or three-times a week or every-other-day dosing, have been ...

NEW YORK — It seems that intensive-dose statin therapy is linked with a higher risk of onset diabetes, compared with moderate-dose therapy, according to an analysis published in the Journal of the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For elderly patients with coronary disease, treatment with high doses of cholesterol-lowering Lipitor (known generically as atorvastatin) reduces the risk of heart-related ...

ORLANDO, FLA. - Giving people with modestly clogged arteries very high doses of a drug to drive their cholesterol down to very low levels cut their risk of strokes and heart attacks even more ...

Among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), statin use does not seem to be associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to new Norwegian data. People with FH are often put on ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Taking a high-dose statin to lower cholesterol may increase risk of developing diabetes by as much as 12 percent, but the heart benefits of statins still outweigh the risks, new ...