Statins lower LDL cholesterol reliably, and for people with established heart disease or high cardiovascular risk, the ...

If you've avoided taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs because you're worried about the risk of developing memory loss, depression or other scary side effects, this scenario plays out more often ...

The new meta-analysis includes 19 double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials involving 123,940 participants with a median follow-up period of 4.5 years. In addition, the authors evaluated ...

New research suggests that it’s rare to experience most of the listed side effects for this common type of cholesterol-lowering medication. Misconceptions that statins come with a high risk of side ...

Scientists have discovered how atorvastatin, a commonly prescribed cholesterol medication, can interfere with a protein that regulates calcium in muscle cells. The findings offer new clues about ...

Statins do not cause the majority of the conditions that have been listed in their package leaflets, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, and erectile and sexual dysfunction, ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent ...

Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, have developed a new calculator that estimates a person's risk of developing serious muscle disorders from ...

People are more worried about severe muscular problems when taking statins than they should be: Such side effects are exceedingly rare, research published Thursday in the journal The Lancet Digital ...