There haven’t been many studies about starting statins in people as old as you. However, I can tell you that an 84-year-old ...

The findings could lead to more tailored treatments for cardiovascular disease. Scientists at the Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

AstraZeneca is to sell European rights to its cholesterol drug Crestor (rosuvastatin) to Germany’s Grunenthal. Crestor is a statin and at its peak generated annual revenues of more than $7 ...

Structures of ApoB100 show LDL receptor contact points ...

Analysis Reveals an Additional Mechanism Behind Statin Therapy's Heart-Related ... of Australians over the age of 50 take cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but ...

To meet predefined lowdensity lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL ... for baseline values. Both drugs were well tolerated. Conclusion: The results show that atorvastatin has an overall better efficacy ...

Statins are widely prescribed medications used to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

At the moment no oral PCSK9 drugs have started clinical ... which in February became the first non-statin, orally-active medication to lower cholesterol that the FDA has approved in almost 20 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn’t smoke, and has a ...

I am a healthy 84-year-old who exercises regularly, eats meat and dairy sparingly, doesn’t smoke, and has a BMI about 25. (I’m 6 feet, 1 inch tall, at 185 pounds.) My yearly wellness test was ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in the journal NEJM Evidence found no association between exposure to very low ...