Health care professionals caution on the persistent/residual cardiovascular risk that remains in patients who have their LDL well controlled on statin therapy. Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH: One thing that ...

Although overweight, obesity and high-intensity statin therapy can increase diabetes risk, new evidence demonstrates ...

Cholesterol meds—taking by millions of Americans every day—often come with a lifelong prescription, adding out-of-pocket ...

Heart doctors are capturing images of the inside of heart arteries, helping them watch plaque respond to cholesterol drugs in ...

There is decreased risk for venous thromboembolism in women aged 50 to 64 years receiving hormone therapy and statin therapy. Statin therapy is associated with a decreased risk for venous ...

Lower baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels are linked to a higher risk for incident type 2 diabetes, largely independent of statin use, a population-based study finds.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Statin therapy may lower risk for stroke or transient ischemic attack among patients with atrial fibrillation.

Taking a statin medication is an effective, safe, and low-cost way to lower cholesterol and reduce risk of cardiovascular events. Despite clinicians recommending that many patients with diabetes take ...

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 ...

Early, intensive therapy with statin medications reduces death and cardiovascular events for patients who have had heart attacks or other acute heart events, according to an analysis of previous ...

More than 20% of patients at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease refuse to take recommended statin medications, and women are 50% more likely than men to opt out, finds a study involving 24 ...