Many Eligible Patients Report Not Being Offered Statins
WEDNESDAY March 27 2019 More than half of patients eligible for statin therapy but not being treated report never being offered a statin according to a study published online March 27 in the Journal of...
View ArticleThe Good News on Statin Hesitancy
MedPage Today Registry finds most willing to try again
View ArticleEmerging Drugs for Residual CV Risk in StatinTreated Adults
Learn about the many novel therapeutics recently approved or under development which target LDLC andor triglycerides via different mechanisms than do statins. American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs
View ArticleStatins linked with diabetes risk in prospective study
Statin use is associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes a prospective study has found.
View ArticleHalf of statin users miss healthy cholestrol target The Times
Half of statin users miss healthy cholestrol target The TimesStatins 'don't work well for one in two people' BBC NewsHalf of patients taking statins won't reach 'healthy' cholesterol levels Daily...
View ArticleOver Half of Patients Have Suboptimal Response to Statins
TUESDAY April 16 2019 More than half of patients initiating statin therapy have a suboptimal lowdensity lipoprotein cholesterol LDLC response within 24 months according to a study published online...
View ArticleHalf of patients taking statins fail to reach optimal cholesterol levels...
Over half of patients started on statin therapy do not achieve optimal therapeutic reduction of their cholesterol within two years a study published in Heart has found.
View ArticleWe need more than medicine to prevent heart disease
Like more than half of older men I take a cholesterollowering medication called a statin. Sometimes that seems a bit strange because I dont have high cholesterol. My doctor prescribed itÂbased on a...
View ArticleEvolocumab Lowers LDLC in Diabetic Patients on Maximum Statins
In patients with type 2 diabetes and hyperlipidemia or mixed dyslipidemia on a maximally tolerated statin treatment with evolocumab lowers lowdensitylipoprotein cholesterol LDLC and improves levels of...
View ArticleSecond PCSK9 Inhibitor Approved for CV Prevention
MedPage Today FDA also approved use without a statin
View ArticleHigher Cholesterol Linked to Increased Glaucoma Risk but Statins Seem to Help
Risk for primary openangle glaucoma seems to increase as cholesterol levels increase but longterm statin use may be protective suggests an observational study...
View ArticleStudy shows one third of statin patients don't reach healthy levels of 'bad'...
Regenstrief Institute Using electronic health records from the Indiana Network for Patient Care a new population health study of entire state found that one third of statin patients don't reach healthy...
View ArticleLonger Duration of Statin Use Linked to Lower Risk for Glaucoma
THURSDAY May 9 2019 Statin use may lower the risk for primary openangle glaucoma POAG according to a study published online May 2 in JAMA Ophthalmology.Jae H. Kang Sc.D. from Brigham and Women's...
View ArticleStatins May Cut Glaucoma Risk
Longterm use of cholesterollowering statin drugs cut the risk of a leading cause of blindness.
View ArticleStatins' potential to treat MS unrelated to lowering cholesterol
The widely prescribed statin simvastatin can medically help patients with secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis SPMS for reasons that might be unrelated to the drug's intended cholesterol lowering...
View ArticleStatins' potential to treat MS unrelated to the drug's cholesterol lowering...
The widely prescribed statin simvastatin can medically help patients with secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis for reasons that might be unrelated to the drug's intended cholesterol lowering...
View ArticleStatins potential to treat MS unrelated to lowering cholesterol
The widely prescribed statin simvastatin can medically help patients with secondary progres
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