For decades, statins have been the quiet workhorses of cardiology, cutting heart attack and stroke risk for millions while ...

High cholesterol usually has no symptoms, but in some cases visible signs could signal dangerously high levels.

Statins can help reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke. (Getty Images) About 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol, a condition that raises the risk for heart disease and ...

Share on Pinterest Taking statins appeared to help people even if they didn’t have high cholesterol. Grace Cary/Getty Images Older adults with chronic kidney disease who took a cholesterol-lowering ...

Cholesterol-lowering medicines are some of the most commonly prescribed, effective drugs. But to influencers on TikTok, they're the enemy. The cholesterol-lowering drug Simvastatin. Like other statins ...

There are several types of lipids, but the most popular ones are good cholesterol known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and bad cholesterol which is called low-density lipoprotein (LDL).

Researchers report that only 35% of adults who are eligible to take statins for prevention of cardiovascular disease are actually using them. They said that misinformation about statins’ side effects ...

Welcome to The Workup, a new First Opinion column from Vishal Khetpal. There’s a saying in medicine: Statins should be in the water. While this may be hyperbolic, as a cardiologist, I don’t think it’s ...