High doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may protect patients from heart attack, but a new analysis of five previous clinical trials finds that they may also increase patients’ risk of ...

Statin dosage does not seem to affect recurrence. * THE QUESTION It's clear that high doses of statins will lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease. But once someone has had a heart attack, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For elderly patients with coronary disease, treatment with high doses of cholesterol-lowering Lipitor (known generically as atorvastatin) reduces the risk of heart-related ...

ORLANDO, FLA. - Giving people with modestly clogged arteries very high doses of a drug to drive their cholesterol down to very low levels cut their risk of strokes and heart attacks even more ...

NEW YORK — It seems that intensive-dose statin therapy is linked with a higher risk of onset diabetes, compared with moderate-dose therapy, according to an analysis published in the Journal of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . High-intensity statin therapy may increase bleeding risk after minor stroke. Statin dose, moderate or high, did ...