Email reminders to physicians about proper dosing of high-intensity statins, individualized to specific patients and often timed around their appointments, significantly improved the likelihood of ...

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 ...

Compared with standard high-dose statin therapy, combination therapy with a moderate-intensity statin plus ezetimibe seems to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events to a similar degree over 3 years ...

Dr. Charles Hennekens, a medical school professor and heart disease researcher at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., says too many patients at high risk of heart attacks and stroke are ...

Moderate-intensity statin with ezetimibe combination therapy was confirmed to be effective on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) reduction in patients at very high risk of atherosclerotic ...

Statin therapy demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in the risk for new-onset diabetes, especially among individuals already at high risk for diabetes. Higher doses of statin therapy moderately ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A treat-to-target statin strategy was noninferior to a high-intensity statin strategy in CAD. The data highlight ...

Cholesterol disorders affect millions of people globally and are among the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. Statins are the first-line therapy for ...

The combination of ezetimibe and a moderate-intensity statin after coronary stenting may be safer and more clinically effective than monotherapy with a high-intensity statin, suggests a "real-world" ...

Statins were linked to only four out of 66 suggested side effects in a major study, plus two previously known ones.