The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association just released new guidelines recommending that as many as 70 percent more Americans over age 45 should be taking statins. I have ...

When the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) released new cholesterol guidelines in 2013, replacing older guidelines and changing statin eligibility, more patients with ...

New advice to reduce heart attacks and strokes could more than double the number of Americans taking cholesterol-lowering statins to 56 million.... When sweeping new advice on preventing heart attacks ...

(HealthDay News) — Most older Americans qualify for treatment with statins under new guidelines for the treatment of blood cholesterol released late last year by the American College of Cardiology and ...

Just under half of all people ages 40-75 would be eligible for statin drugs under new guidelines designed to help doctors prescribe the cholesterol-lowering therapies. A study published Wednesday by ...

Adherence to clinical guidelines in practice is often suboptimal and controversial. This study compares actual statin utilization and cost with full adoption of major clinical guidelines in a ...

Under current national cholesterol guidelines, only half of younger patients who experience an MI would have been identified as being at high risk and eligible for treatment with lipid-lowering ...

Cancer and cardiovascular disease share risk factors, and there is some evidence that statins reduce cancer mortality. We sought to determine the accuracy of the 2013 American College of ...

New Haven, Conn. – New national guidelines can improve the way statin drugs are prescribed to patients at risk for cardiovascular disease, a Yale University study has found. The research, published ...

The nation's leading heart organizations, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, released new guidelines Tuesday that will fundamentally reshape the use of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ANAHEIM, Calif. — The majority of adults who present with MI at age 50 years or younger did not meet current ...