A new study by researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City aims to determine the best method to screen and evaluate ...

Researchers at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have identified a key molecule involved in a form of ...

Decades of research have established statins as a safe treatment to effectively lower cholesterol and improve health outcomes. Most people take these drugs without any adverse effects. However ...

Statin drugs are often prescribed to safely lower the risk of heart attacks, stroke and hardening of the arteries. What exactly are these drugs and how do they work?

Statins are essential for the primary prevention of CVD in this high-risk group. Despite guideline recommendations, statin use remains suboptimal in clinical practice. Assessing statin utilization and ...

Tens of thousands of people suffer needless heart attacks and strokes every year because they aren't taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, a new study says.

Amycretin, a new weight-loss treatment from Novo Nordisk, combines two hunger hormones, helping participants lose nearly one-quarter of their body weight in early trials.

Novo Nordisk on Friday said full results from early-stage trials show that its experimental drug, amycretin, helped overweight and obese adults lose up to 24% of their weight as the Danish company ...

Cholesterol-lowering medicines are some of the most commonly prescribed, effective drugs. But to influencers on TikTok, they're the enemy.

In comparison with the non-statin group, the use of different types of statin were associated with reduced 28-day mortality in sepsis patients with AKI. Compared with the rosuvastatin group, there was ...