Rader and other scientists are hard at work developing new types of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Their argument: millions of people need them. For one thing, statins only do so much. When patients ...

Another reason statins may not work is Jyoti Sharma continued ... is somewhere between $7,000-$12,000 a year. While we do have good data to show that PCSK9 inhibitors can lower cholesterol ...

What do the data suggest at this time in regards to statin therapy and the pleiotropic effects of such therapy? The plaque stabilization effects of high-dose statin therapy are consistent with the ...

So does that mean you can let the pill do all the work? Absolutely not! To get the most out of your statin and make your body stronger overall, a healthy lifestyle is still a must. Plus ...

Controversy over use of Statin drug for heart failure patients still remains unanswered but the drug has been very useful in reducing LDL cholesterol levels. Research articles in the Journal of ...

We spoke with Dr. Shah, who emphasized that statins are “a group of medications that have had exhaustive scientific evaluation over a generation to determine that they do have mortality benefit ...

but validation of anti-inflammatory strategies to reduce cardiovascular risk await the results of trials with agents that do not also lower LDL-cholesterol. As a complement to the statins ...

Observational studies have suggested that statin use reduces the risk of Alzheimer disease, but the mechanism that underlies this association is unknown. Hypothetically, lipophilic statins could ...