Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, have no effect on kidney function, a research team led by the University of Iowa has found.

A recent breakthrough study has uncovered a promising link between non-statin cholesterol-lowering medications and liver cancer prevention. Among the drugs examined, ezetimibe—commonly known by ...

Many older people develop chronic kidney disease and are also likely to be on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.

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Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, have no effect on kidney function, a research team led by the University of ...

A University of Iowa research team has found that a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs have no effect on kidney function.

Yet in 2009, pediatricians wrote children in the U.S. at least 2.8 million prescriptions for drugs to lower cholesterol; nearly 2.3 million of them were for statins. (not including prescriptions ...

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However, many current statins have major limitations. Moreover, innovative treatments need to address non-LDL-C residual risk (which may be marked by high triglycerides, low HDL-C concentrations ...

Trials of Intensive Statin ... Lipid Lowering; LDL-C = LDL-cholesterol; MI = Myocardial infarction; MIRACL = Myocardial Ischemia Reduction with Aggressive Cholesterol Lowering; NSTEMI = Non ...

Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, have no effect on kidney function, a research team led by the University of Iowa has found. The research team, led by clinical professors Michelle ...