For primary prevention patients at high risk, such as those with a 10-year risk > 10%, the LDL target is less than 70 mg/dL (class 2a recommendation). For this group, treatment begins with a ...

Cardiology groups say adults as young as 30 should assess cholesterol risk and consider treatment to prevent heart attacks ...

New global heart health guidance from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology recommends that cholesterol checks begin at age 19, with repeat testing every five years.

The update was jointly published in the journal Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The recent ...

How secondary prevention statins are given to push LDL cholesterol levels lower, whether in a high-intensity statin regimen or by dosage titration to meet LDL targets, may make little difference to ...

Dr. Charles Hennekens, a medical school professor and heart disease researcher at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Fla., says too many patients at high risk of heart attacks and stroke are ...

CHICAGO, IL – It's been a full 365 days since the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) presented their "paradigm-shifting" clinical guidelines for the management ...

The study, published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, showsed that when ezetimibe was combined with a high dose statin to reduce levels of low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), there was ...

Patients with established clinical ASCVD Patients with severe primary hypercholesterolemia (a baseline LDL-C level ≥190 mg/dL) Patients 40-75 years of age with diabetes and a baseline LDL-C level of ...

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 ...

People living with HIV have a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular disease that requires a different level of preventive management than in the general population. Last year, an HHS panel ...

ST. PAUL, Minn., July 31 (UPI) --Doctors are routinely "underdosing" statins for patients at risk for heart attacks and strokes due to elevated levels of "bad" cholesterol, even though the drugs have ...