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Should You Take Statin For High Cholesterol? Cardiologist Answers

Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels is essential for supporting various bodily functions and preventing health issues, particularly cardiovascular diseases. High levels of LDL cholesterol (bad ...

What drinking alcohol when you’re on statins does to your body

With statins altering the liver’s natural function, and alcohol needing to be metabolised, Dr Guttmann says that having too ...
South Florida Reporter

Why statins could help lower dementia risk by up to 80%

Share on PinterestLower your cholesterol to lower your dementia risk, a new study confirms. Image credit: Anna ...
ABC7

Treating high cholesterol without statins? Scientists say new alternative looks promising

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- We know untreated high cholesterol could lead to heart disease or stroke and statins are usually the gold standard treatment. However, not everyone can take them. Now, ...
KOAT Albuquerque

Do supplements or statins lower LDL cholesterol more?

YEAH, TOUGH TO CALL THAT A COOL DOWN FOR SURE HERE. MORE PEOPLE ARE TURNING TO NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS AS A WAY TO LOWER THEIR CHOLESTEROL INSTEAD OF USING STATINS. KOAT MEDICAL EXPERT DOCTOR DR.
Medscape

Statins, Cholesterol, Women and Primary Prevention: Evidence-Based Medicine or Wishful Thinking?

Future Cardiol. 2009;5(1):1-4. That leaves extrapolation from secondary prevention women's results to support primary prevention statin use, yet the risk profiles for women in the two groups ...