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 ...

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

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

Many older people develop chronic kidney disease and are also likely to be on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins. There has been speculation that the statins could interfere with kidney ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 Iowa has found. The research team, led by clinical professors Michelle ...