Cholesterol disorders affect millions of people globally and are among the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases, including heart attack and stroke. Statins are the first-line therapy for ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. If you take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, you may have noticed a flurry of news coverage since late October 2025 about an extensive ...

Description The goal of the trial was to evaluate the effect of atorvastatin compared with placebo among patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI ...

Zocor (simvastatin) and Lipitor (atorvastatin) are both statin drugs, which are medications used to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Statins primarily work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA ...

In a recent study published in JAMA, atorvastatin reduced cardiac functional impairment for patients with lymphoma who were treated with anthracyclines. Although many clinical trials and real-world ...

LIPITOR is indicated in hypertensive patients with multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease CHD which may include diabetes, history of stroke or other cerebrovascular disease, peripheral ...