not just your LDL cholesterol levels. The guidelines suggest those risks include your age, blood pressure level, whether you smoke, are overweight, or have diabetes or other medical problems.

The group also lowered its suggested minimum age for drug treatment from ... number of children who are candidates for statin drugs under the AAP guidelines is quite small. The findings showed ...

“[But] European guidelines are even stricter ... of developing a heart attack or stroke at a very young age.” At this high cholesterol level, treatment like statins is generally recommended.

Specific guidelines do not always recommend ... beyond 85 years of age the effects of cholesterol-lowering therapy have yet to be assessed. Statin therapy must be undertaken prudently in the ...

But this chart can help give you some general guidelines ... because your cholesterol naturally increases as you age. Children should be tested for the first time between ages 9 and 11, and ...

Current guidelines restricting aspirin based on age alone may be flawed ... high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, and insulin resistance. These individuals face a 16-18% ten-year risk ...

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who were taking cholesterol-lowering ...

This large difference in statin recommendations appears to be explained by the strong influence of older age in recommending a statin by the Pooled Cohort Equation and, in contrast, the frequent ...

This study also used a high-risk goal of <105 mg/dL, rather than the actual ATP II goal of ≤100 mg/dL, for statistical analyses, and achievement rates were lower for all statins when analysis ...

HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, commonly referred to as statins, are the cornerstone of pharmacologic reduction of elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. LDL-C is the main contributor to ...

A total of 424 patients (29%) were taking a statin at the time they started treatment across the four clinical trials. The median patient age was 65, and 66% were men; 92% had CLL, which was ...