Elevated cholesterol levels have become a growing health concern over the past few years. When left uncontrolled, high cholesterol levels can lead to serious health complications, including heart ...

Cardiologists have known for more than three decades that statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs can lower levels of ubiquinone. Most people know ubiquinone by the name coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10.

There's two promising options to make statins tolerable again.

Q. I started taking statins 30 years ago. After several years, I developed terrible muscle pain. Eventually we figured out why and I switched to another medication to control high cholesterol. It was ...

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July 24 -- WEDNESDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- British researchers have discovered a genetic variant that causes some people who take cholesterol-lowering statins to have the muscle weakness called ...

LONDON, UK — When prescribing a statin, doctors should be aware of the nocebo effect, judging from an analysis of adverse events on and off active therapy in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 65-year-old man. In May 2023, I had a major heart attack. Three stents were installed. I have been doing well since the heart attack, except I now get bone and joint pain and ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had a CT calcium scan, and my score was 530. My doctor said that this was high, so he put me on a statin (Lipitor). But it debilitated me with so much muscle pain that I had to stop.