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 ...

The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, along with several partner medical societies, released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Charles Hennekens, a medical school professor and heart disease researcher at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., ...

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.

Patients with established clinical ASCVD Patients with severe primary hypercholesterolemia (a baseline LDL-C level ≥190 mg/dL) Patients 40-75 years of age with diabetes and a baseline LDL-C level of ...

Investigators suggest LDL targets typically reserved for secondary prevention are best in high-risk patients with diabetes.

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 ...

Statins can help lower the risk for people who have had a bleeding stroke of having an ischemic stroke, a new study finds. A study in Neurology published last week focused on 15,151 people who had an ...

People living with HIV have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease that requires a different level of preventive management than in the general population. Last year, an HHS panel ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31 (UPI) --Doctors are routinely "underdosing" statins for patients at risk for heart attacks and strokes due to elevated levels of "bad" cholesterol, even though the drugs have ...