Questions remain as to the mechanisms of benefit of statin therapy in stroke prevention, the role of statins in the primary prevention of stroke, and the role of statins in modulating the immune ...

Over the last 5 years, there have been a growing number of studies showing that the cholesterol-lowering drugs ... inflammation that play an important role in the natural history of this disease.

Ten years after learning their polygenic risk score, patients had fewer events—perhaps due to greater use of statin therapy.