These cholesterol level charts will show you what's normal for every age and gender. Plus, a few tips for staying within a ...

HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, appears to influence treatment decisions around statin therapy, according to an analysis in JACC: Advances. Compared with people who have normal HDL-cholesterol ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. It’s a math problem with life-and-death ...

The largest analysis to examine the best way to lower levels of "bad" cholesterol in patients with blocked arteries shows that they should immediately be given a combination of a statin and another ...

There is broad consensus that the overall body of evidence shows lowering LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol provides both statistically significant and clinically meaningful benefits in ...

A new medication that combines an already approved drug with a new unapproved one has been shown to cut the level of LDL, or “bad” cholestero l, when statins aren’t helping enough. In the Phase 3 ...

The rules for statin and blood pressure (BP) medication initiation may need to be rewritten if a new and improved cardiovascular risk prediction tool is broadly implemented, research suggested. Use of ...

In high-risk patients intolerant to statins, inflammation appears to be more influential than cholesterol level when it comes to future risk of CV events and death, according to a new analysis of the ...

Scientists have found that statins -- commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- may block a pathway that leads to the development of cancer in the context of chronic inflammation. A new study led by ...

Cholesterol-busting drugs have been linked to reducing the risk of dementia in a new study. Statins are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the UK, with around seven to eight million people ...