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

Statin dosage does not seem to affect recurrence. * THE QUESTION It's clear that high doses of statins will lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease. But once someone has had a heart attack, ...

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High doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may protect patients from heart attack, but a new analysis of five previous clinical trials finds that they may also increase patients’ risk of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For elderly patients with coronary disease, treatment with high doses of cholesterol-lowering Lipitor (known generically as atorvastatin) reduces the risk of heart-related ...

Two million people will be advised to boost their statin dose in order to slash their cholesterol levels under new NHS targets. The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said the ...

Among patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), statin use does not seem to be associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to new Norwegian data. People with FH are often put on ...

ORLANDO, FLA. - Giving people with modestly clogged arteries very high doses of a drug to drive their cholesterol down to very low levels cut their risk of strokes and heart attacks even more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-intensity statin therapy may increase bleeding risk after minor stroke. Statin dose, moderate or high, did ...

If you're starting atorvastatin for the first time, it's completely normal to notice a few minor niggles during those initial ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Taking a high-dose statin to lower cholesterol may increase risk of developing diabetes by as much as 12 percent, but the heart benefits of statins still outweigh the risks, new ...