If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a ...

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 ...

Statins are the go-to medications for lowering “bad” LDL cholesterol, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and ...

Primary care physicians who received patient-specific reminders for prescribing high-intensity statins for patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) did increase their prescribing ...

Statin therapy demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in the risk for new-onset diabetes, especially among individuals already at high risk for diabetes. Higher doses of statin therapy moderately ...

New evidence hints that statins may protect a wider range of people with type 2 diabetes than previously assumed. A major ...

CHICAGO, IL – It's been a full 365 days since the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) presented their "paradigm-shifting" clinical guidelines for the management ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Statin therapy is a first-line recommendation for all adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, a large collaborative team of researchers investigated the factors associated with the increased risk of diabetes due to statin use, ...

More than one in four patients in the United States with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) are not on a guideline-recommended statin or other lipid-lowering therapy, with suboptimal ...