A big heart study is checking if adding a drug called evolocumab to usual cholesterol treatment helps prevent heart attacks, strokes, or heart-related deaths in people at high risk who haven’t had...

Does the drug evolocumab help prevent heart attacks, strokes, or related heart problems in people with artery disease or high-risk diabetes who haven't had a heart attack or stroke before?

For people with heart disease who are already taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, adding a medicine called evolocumab can lower their chance of having a heart attack, stroke, or other serious heart problems by about 15% over two years.

A drug called evolocumab, when given every two weeks, cuts bad cholesterol by more than 60% in people at high risk for heart problems — and that result has shown up consistently in several major studies.

A drug called Evolocumab helps lower the chance of serious heart problems like heart attacks and strokes in people at high risk — and it seems to work pretty well over about 8 months.

For people with heart disease who are already taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, adding a medicine called evolocumab can cut their risk of heart attack, stroke, or dying from heart problems by 20% over about two years.