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

most are generally safe. (Read on for more detailed information in our most recent Best Buy Drug report on use of statins in adults to lower cholesterol.) But the situation is different with children.

To help prevent these deaths, drugs like statins can lower cholesterol, which stops unhealthy ... they appear to be very safe," says cardiologist Eugene Yang, MD, medical director of the UW ...