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 ...

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

Both of those can be triggered by fatty cholesterol ... While women have been under-represented in the major statin studies, the research to date suggests that the drugs pose similar risks to ...