Statins lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, and improve overall heart health. In the late 1970s, researchers found that a substance called mevastatin, isolated from a ...

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 ...

Statin dosage does not seem to affect recurrence. * THE QUESTION It's clear that high doses of statins will lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease. But once someone has had a heart attack, ...

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 ...

The amount of absolute risk reduction from a statin in a person without known heart disease depends mostly on a person's ...

Statin medications are prescribed to reduce the risk of heart disease and heart attack. However, their benefits vary from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-intensity statin therapy may increase bleeding risk after minor stroke. Statin dose, moderate or high, did ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO—Some higher-intensity statin formulations are associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), according to findings presented at Kidney Week 2012. In a study that identified ...

A renowned senior cardiologist in our area has been taking all his patients off statins and putting them on Repatha. He did this for my husband, and the results have been amazing. Within three months, ...