cholesterol lowering drugs

Scientists have pinpointed the genetic cause of a rare side effect of the cholesterol-lowering drugs statins.

Obese children, including some as young as eight, should receive cholesterol-lowering drugs, say leading US doctors.

Should cholesterol lowering drugs be given to eight-year-olds?

New guidelines have caused a stir among both pediatricians and parents

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have a profound effect on an elite group of cells known as glial progenitor cells that are important to brain health as we age, scientists have found.

The new findings shed light on a long-debated potential role for statins in the area of dementia.

A newly released study shows that cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins also help to lower blood pressure.

High cholesterol levels are considered to be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease including stroke. Therefore, many cholesterol lowering drugs have been developed by pharmaceutical companies in recent years.

One class of these drugs, statins, has been found to reduce the incidence of stroke and progression of Alzheimer's disease when prophylactically administered.