But what about older adults over the age of 70 — can statins help them as well? “Despite high risks of heart disease and stroke in older people and high need for preventive treatment such as ...

Statins, like atorvastatin sold under the brand name Lipitor, are generally recommended for adults over 40 with risk factors ... statin use in men and women 70 and older with or without previous ...

With cardiovascular disease on the rise, heart health is of the utmost importance. It’s estimated that 70 percent of people ...

Despite cardiovascular risk increasing with age, statins use is lower among the over 70s. This observational study modelled the lifetime effects and cost-effectiveness of statin therapy in people aged ...

Just over a third ... low-dose statins, despite not having a health plan. A 2004 update of the NCEP guidelines, [9] however, recommends an LDL-cholesterol goal of 1.81 mM/l (70 mg/dl) for very ...

More people over the age of 75 should be taking statins, scientists have said, following a review of research. There had been a lack of evidence about how much the cholesterol-lowering drugs ...

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 ...

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 ...

14, 2024 — More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take ... Youth May Have Abnormal or High Cholesterol Mar. 6, 2024 — More than 70% of American Indian young adults aged 20-39 ...

Michael Mosley talks to two experts with very different opinions on whether we should take statins to reduce our risk of a heart attack or stroke. Statins reduce so-called ‘bad cholesterol’ or ...

A warning has been issued to women over 'silent heart attacks' and the signs to be aware of if they're experiencing one.