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Your guide to taking statins - Harvard Health

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Statins help lower the risk of heart attack and stroke. Here’s how they work and when you need them. For more than 30 years, statins, the world’s most prescribed …

The status of statins - Harvard Health

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The new state of statins - Harvard Health

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Almost one-third of older adults take statins to help lower cholesterol levels, but new guidelines and research have restarted the conversation on the role statins play …

Cholesterol - Harvard Health

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Statins block an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase, which is necessary for the production of cholesterol. Statins do much more than lower your LDL cholesterol number. They …

Don't be afraid of statins - Harvard Health

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Statins have been doing what they do — lowering cholesterol to help prevent cardiovascular disease — for more than three decades. Still, many people who could …

Managing Your Cholesterol - Harvard Health

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Managing Your Cholesterol, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School, offers up-to-date information to help you, or a loved one, keep cholesterol in check. The report …

4 myths about statins - Harvard Health

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Because statins target liver cells, early statin users were advised to get routine blood tests to check their liver enzyme levels, since rising levels warn of possible …

Cholesterol and statins: it’s no longer just about the …

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Statins are the best drugs to lower LDL cholesterol. Statins also have benefits above and beyond cholesterol lowering. We have long known that statins lower …

Don't give more patients statins | Harvard Medical School

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Don't give more patients statins. John D. Abramson and Rita F. Redberg November 13, 2013. John D. Abramson, HMS lecturer on health care policy, co-authored …

Who to Treat with Statins | National …

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Among the recommendations was that people 40 to 75 years of age without clinical ASCVD and diabetes should take statins if they have an LDL cholesterol level of 70 to 189 …