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 ...
Higher doses of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins appear to boost survival slightly for certain people, a large new study reports. The study followed more than 509,000 patients with ...
If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a ...
The newer statins on the market have longer half-lives than the original statins. Alternative dosing schedules using once-, twice- or three-times a week or every-other-day dosing, have been ...
Ezetimibe/simvastatin: 10/10 mg, 10/20 mg, 10/40 mg, and 10/80 mg. Atorvastatin: 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg, and 80 mg. The primary end point of the study was the percent change from baseline to the end of ...