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Statins are drugs used to lower cholesterol. Your body needs some cholesterol to work properly. But if you have too much in your blood, it can stick to the walls of your arteries, narrowing or even blocking them.

Combined use of three drugs linked with lower lung cancer incidence and mortality

Combined use of aspirin, statins, and metformin is associated with decreased lung cancer incidence and mortality, according to a study published in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

17 Sep 2020

Biologic therapy for psoriasis could lead to significant reduction in heart disease

Patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy, which are protein-based infusions to suppress inflammation, had a significant reduction in high-risk plaque in heart arteries, over one-year, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal.

15 Sep 2020

Gout medication reduces major cardiovascular events in heart patients

Colchicine reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events in patients with chronic coronary disease, according to results of the LoDoCo2 trial presented in a Hot Line session today at ESC Congress 2020.

31 Aug 2020

Premenopausal women have favorable long-term outcomes after heart attack, shows study

Premenopausal women have good long-term outcomes after a heart attack, according to late breaking research presented today at ESC Congress 2020.

31 Aug 2020

Combinations of lipid-lowering therapies could reduce health risk for European patients

New findings from a large European study of patients in 18 countries, including the UK, show that while many patients are able to reduce their risk through taking statins, those at the highest risk of cardiovascular events may benefit from combinations of lipid-lowering therapies.

28 Aug 2020

Calcified plaque in the arteries better predicts future heart attacks than strokes

The amount of calcified plaque in the heart's arteries is a better predictor of future heart attacks than of strokes, with similar findings across sex and racial groups, according to new research from UT Southwestern.

18 Aug 2020

Food-based approach reduces LDL cholesterol levels, offers healthcare cost savings

A new study is the first to show a food-based approach using clinically-proven diet interventions to lower cholesterol levels, such as Step One Foods®, provides significant healthcare cost savings.

13 Aug 2020

UArizona researcher aims to deliver statins effectively into the brain of stroke patients

Every year in the United States, about 800,000 people experience a stroke. Many are left with neurological complications such as paralysis on one side of the body, speech and language problems, vision issues, behavioral changes, and memory loss.

6 Aug 2020

Targeting LDL cholesterol to reduce heart disease risk now questioned

For many years, health experts have warned that high levels of bad cholesterol or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) are critical drivers for the development of cardiovascular disease. Now, a new study claims that decades of research have failed to show benefit of targeting the bad cholesterol to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.

4 Aug 2020

New study helps identify patients at higher risk of statin-related myopathy

Statins are prescribed to millions of people worldwide to reduce their risks of suffering heart attacks and strokes.

25 Jul 2020

Selective statins may reduce SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and inhibit infection

Statins are a class of drugs often used to control high cholesterol levels in obesity. Now, a study published on the preprint server medRxiv* in July 2020 suggests that statins do not aggravate the risk of COVID-19 infection and may have a small beneficial effect in some cases.

16 Jul 2020

Coronary calcium scoring can help doctors make the right recommendation about statin therapy

Your doctor tells you that you need a statin to lower your cholesterol and reduce your heart attack risk. You don't like taking medicine and your friend tells you that he had achy muscles after he started a statin. You wonder if you should listen to your doctor or go without the medicine.

6 Jul 2020

Study examines statin use among nursing home residents nearing the end of life

Cardiovascular disease (also called heart disease) is one of the most common medical conditions older adults face. In nursing homes, almost half of all older adult residents have been diagnosed with problems affecting the heart and/or blood vessels.

24 Jun 2020

Statin therapy linked to lower death rate in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

The use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins is associated with a lower death rate and a lower incidence of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), researchers report June 24 in Cell Metabolism.

24 Jun 2020

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Combined use of three drugs linked with lower lung cancer incidence and mortality

Biologic therapy for psoriasis could lead to significant reduction in heart disease

Gout medication reduces major cardiovascular events in heart patients

Premenopausal women have favorable long-term outcomes after heart attack, shows study

Combinations of lipid-lowering therapies could reduce health risk for European patients

Calcified plaque in the arteries better predicts future heart attacks than strokes

Food-based approach reduces LDL cholesterol levels, offers healthcare cost savings

UArizona researcher aims to deliver statins effectively into the brain of stroke patients

Targeting LDL cholesterol to reduce heart disease risk now questioned

New study helps identify patients at higher risk of statin-related myopathy

Selective statins may reduce SARS-CoV-2 cell entry and inhibit infection

Coronary calcium scoring can help doctors make the right recommendation about statin therapy

Study examines statin use among nursing home residents nearing the end of life

Statin therapy linked to lower death rate in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

New nanoparticle drug combination can help treat atherosclerosis

Common cholesterol-lowering drug linked to improvement in gut microbiota

New Canadian study investigates how cancer adapts its metabolism to overcome therapies

Early diagnosis of pulmonary embolism could enhance treatment in COVID-19 patients

Polygenic risk scores may improve clinical assessment of patients with elevated heart attack risk

Cholesterol lowering drugs can improve composition of gut bacteria in obese individuals

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