More than 38% of Connecticut adults reported having high cholesterol in 2023, according to data from America's Health ...
Millions of Americans over 75 take statins to prevent a first heart attack or stroke, yet the federal evidence review guiding ...
Statins are the first-line therapy for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk reduction. Statins have also been shown to be safe and well-tolerated in properly selected patients, similar ...
Susquehanna Health (SH) Cardiologist Dr. Liran Blum said new guidelines established by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) regarding the recommended use of ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - New guidelines on heart health that sparked fierce debate among U.S. cardiologists last fall could lead 12.8 million more Americans to take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, U.S.
Ms. C*, a 53-year-old African American woman living with HIV for almost a decade, inquired about the recently released recommendations for cardiovascular disease prevention among people with HIV (PWH) ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes who delay treatment with recommended statin therapy to address the well-known high risk for cardiovascular (CV) events show significantly higher ...
Applying the current Australian CVD risk guidelines, it found 77 people were eligible for statin therapy, so just 7.1%. Using the 5-year absolute cardiovascular risk guidelines and a coronary artery ...