It has been shown that statin treatment is both effective and safe, and details of the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER) trial are reviewed. It may be useful to ...

fewer older people use statins compared to middle-aged people,” Borislava Mihaylova, DPhil, associate professor and senior health economist at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the ...

The researchers therefore modelled the lifetime effects and cost-effectiveness of statin therapy for people aged 70 and above using the latest evidence on these drugs' safety and effectiveness in ...

Cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs taken by millions of Britons may not work well enough in about half of those prescribed them, research suggests. UK investigators looked at 165,000 patients on ...

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If diet and exercise aren’t enough, statins can quickly reduce your bad cholesterol by 50% or more, while boosting your good cholesterol by as much as 15%. That’s a tremendous improvement in ...

(HealthDay News) — Statin therapy improves health outcomes and is cost-effective for men and women aged 70 years and older, according to a study published online Sept. 10 in Heart. Borislava Mihaylova ...

More than a quarter of Americans over the age of 40 are taking a statin to lower their cholesterol and to lower their risk of ...