Statins lower cholesterol and can reduce the risk for heart and circulatory disease. In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) expanded indications for ...

Statins lower cholesterol levels, reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, and improve overall heart health. In the late 1970s, researchers found that a substance called mevastatin, isolated from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Statins can help reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. (Getty Images) (Iryna Imago via Getty Images) About 86 million ...

Using electronic medical record data from Veterans Affairs, researchers found statin use was associated with a greater risk of diabetes progression. Results of a retrospective study linked statin use ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients who used statins had a reduced risk for HCC, hepatic decompensation and fibrosis progression.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately one-quarter of strokes in the U.S. do not require statins for secondary prevention. Statin ...

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 ...

Use of an internet app to determine eligibility and access to a statin without a prescription could expand the numbers of primary prevention patients taking these drugs and lead to a reduction in ...