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.

RA: Dr Edelberg, could you please tell us more about the rare genetic mutation that leads to low cholesterol and how we came to our current understanding of this mutation? JE: Human genetic ...

Statin drugs are some of the most commonly prescribed medications in the world. They are used to lower cholesterol and reduce ...

(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. Statins approved by ...

The body needs some cholesterol to maintain good health. But for those who need to reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke, statin drugs lower the level of "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipo ...

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents ... It was not based on any new scientific data but rather the increasingly ...

Eli Lilly LLY announced that its investigational oral, once-daily cholesterol-lowering drug muvalaplin reduced lipoprotein(a) or Lp(a) levels in adults with high risk of cardiovascular events in ...

What's the best way to lower them ... a decision is made whether to prescribe cholesterol-lowering medications. The most ...