If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a healthier range and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. But what's the ...

Statins are among the most commonly prescribed medications for reducing high cholesterol and lowering the risk of heart attack and stroke. People searching for popular statin medications are often ...

Dr. Charles Hennekens, a medical school professor and heart disease researcher at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., says too many patients at high risk of heart attacks and stroke are ...

How secondary prevention statins are given to push LDL cholesterol levels lower, whether in a high-intensity statin regimen or by dosage titration to meet LDL targets, may make little difference to ...

Lifetime treatment with statins is a cost-effective therapy across a wide range of elderly patients with and without cardiovascular disease, according to an analysis published this week in Heart.

Compared with high-intensity statin therapy, moderate intensity statin therapy plus ezetimibe was equally effective in preventing CV events among patients undergoing PCI. Moderate-intensity statin ...

Many Medicare heart attack patients do not continue taking their prescribed high-intensity statins with high adherence after hospital discharge, according to a report in JAMA Cardiology. For the study ...

Thousands of lives could be saved by combining statins with another cholesterol-lowering drug, according to new research. The largest analysis to examine the best way to lower levels of "bad" ...