Experts highlight hidden heart risks from lipoprotein(a) and suggest earlier cholesterol screening and statin use to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Millions more adults should consider starting cholesterol-lowering medications earlier to reduce their risk of heart attack ...

New guidelines recommend considering cholesterol-lowering statins in the 30s, screening all adults for hidden risk factors ...

Cardiology groups say adults as young as 30 should assess cholesterol risk and consider treatment to prevent heart attacks ...

Cholesterol is a fatty substance that exists in every cell of the human body. It plays an important role in helping the body ...

Losing a battle you cannot see is one of the biggest challenges in medicine. And for many Americans, that quiet fight happens ...

Statins are widely used to lower cardiovascular risk, yet questions about possible weight changes keep surfacing. Here’s what ...

The study, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, showsed that when ezetimibe was combined with a high dose statin ...

Statins are among the most widely used medicines in the world. Doctors often prescribe them to people who have high ...

Researchers are to examine whether or not cheap cholesterol-busting statins could help people with motor neurone disease (MND) live longer. People with the progressive neurodegenerative disease ...

A multidisciplinary team from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has conducted a series of landmark studies demonstrating that statins can lower the risk of ...

Commonly prescribed heart medications, including statins and diuretics, do not negatively affect the survival of ...