“Society guidelines do not recommend statins for preeclampsia prevention at this time as more research is needed,” Schwabe ...

Higher dietary cholesterol intake is linked to an increased risk of myocardial infarction among U.S. veterans, reinforcing ...

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Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) -- commonly known as bad cholesterol -- have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease. But these microscopic troublemakers have hidden ...

There remains controversy in the scientific community about the benefit of statins in women, because women have been less studied than men.

Statins might have beneficial effects at several stages in the pathogenesis of CNS autoimmune disease. First, they might inhibit the presentation of myelin antigen, which is required for T-cell ...

I am a 69-year-old woman who was diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). I used statins for over a decade but developed vulvar lichen sclerosus (LS), which only went ...