More than 30 years after the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study showed that statins save lives, their full public health potential remains unrealised. Statins are underused worldwide, and as a ...

Statins are the most prescribed drugs in America. At last count, over 50 million people were taking medications such as atorvastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin, pravastatin or lovastatin to control ...

Taking a statin didn’t cause any meaningful increase in memory loss, dementia, depression, sleep problems, erectile ...

The results, in The Lancet journal, come from trials involving more than 120,000 people comparing statins with a dummy drug or placebo.

When it comes to taking the medication, the most critical factor for all statins is taking them at the same time every day.

Statins have been blamed for everything short of causing bad hair days—especially by the alternative-medicine crowd, who ...

A massive review of 23 randomized trials found that statins do not cause the vast majority of side effects listed on their ...

Following the frequent suspicions regarding the safety of cholesterol-lowering drugs in the pre-statin era,1 statins have been a recurrent object of various concerns and alarming news. For example, ...

A massive analysis of randomized trials suggests that most side effects listed on statin labels may not be caused by the ...

High cholesterol is one of the most common and manageable risk factors for heart disease. Millions of adults are prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...