(HealthDay News) — European and American guidelines lead to different recommendations for statin therapy, according to a study published online in JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging. Amir A. Mahabadi, MD, ...

Under current national cholesterol guidelines, only half of younger patients who experience an MI would have been identified as being at high risk and eligible for treatment with lipid-lowering ...

When it comes to using statins to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, one leading US guideline recommends the drugs to 9 million more people than the other, according to a study published in the ...

If you have high cholesterol, there's a good chance your doctor has recommended statins to get your numbers back into a healthier range and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. But what's the ...

Findings of reduced risks for mortality and major CVD suggest consideration of statins in all adults with type 2 diabetes, even in those with low short-term predicted CVD risk.

Starting a statin may improve outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) who are initially free from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to ...

DEAR DOCTOR K: My doctor never recommended statins to me, but he says there are new guidelines, and thinks that I should now start taking one. What do you think of the new statin guidelines? DEAR ...

DEAR READERS: You’ve sent me lots of correspondence about the new statin guidelines. Most have come from people whose doctors put them on statins because of the new guidelines. In October 2015, I ...

Critics of the guidelines say that most people who take statins for primary prevention — meaning, to prevent a first stroke or heart attack — don’t actually benefit from it, but they could be exposed ...