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For people who already have heart disease, adding evolocumab to their cholesterol medicine lowers their risk of heart attack, stroke, or dying from heart problems by about 1 in 5, and the protection...
When people with heart disease add a drug called evolocumab to their cholesterol medicine (statin), their bad cholesterol drops by about 60% quickly and stays low for years, helping most of them...
Taking stronger treatments to lower bad cholesterol seems to cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious heart problems — even if your cholesterol isn’t that high to begin with.
If your 'bad' cholesterol is 100 or higher, lowering it more aggressively helps prevent heart-related deaths. But if it's already below 100, lowering it even more doesn't seem to help much — there...
If you have high 'bad' cholesterol, lowering it more aggressively can help you live longer, especially if your levels are really high to begin with. Doctors should decide how hard to treat based on...
People in Saudi Arabia with a rare cholesterol condition don’t seem to lower their bad cholesterol as much with a certain drug as other people did in past studies — and it might be because of their...
For people in Saudi Arabia with a rare inherited form of very high cholesterol, taking a drug called Evolocumab once a month didn’t seem to lower their bad cholesterol much — the drop was small and...
In a group of 37 people in Saudi Arabia with a rare cholesterol condition, the most common gene change was in the LDL receptor, which likely breaks how the body clears bad cholesterol — and this...
For people in Saudi Arabia with a rare genetic form of very high cholesterol, taking a drug called evolocumab every two weeks seems to lower their bad cholesterol a little bit — not a huge drop, but...
For people with heart disease who are on cholesterol-lowering drugs, adding a drug called evolocumab doesn’t raise their risk of serious side effects — including diabetes or memory problems —...
Even if someone with heart disease is already taking cholesterol-lowering drugs and their cholesterol is pretty low, adding a drug called evolocumab can still help protect their heart.
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%...
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...
Heart transplant patients taking PCSK9 inhibitor drugs don’t seem to develop harmful immune reactions to their new heart in the first month, which means their body isn’t showing early signs of...
For some people who've had a heart transplant, taking PCSK9 inhibitor drugs might help keep the inside of their heart's blood vessels from getting narrower over time.
If you've had a heart transplant and start taking a PCSK9 inhibitor for cholesterol, it probably won't mess with your anti-rejection medication levels.
People who got a new heart and took a drug called a PCSK9 inhibitor didn’t have serious side effects from the medicine — in fact, none of the 97 patients studied had problems caused by the drug over...
For people who've had a heart transplant and can't take cholesterol pills like statins, a newer medicine called a PCSK9 inhibitor might help lower their bad cholesterol by about 83 points over a year.
In healthy-looking middle-aged Americans with low heart disease risk, higher 'bad' cholesterol is linked to more buildup in heart arteries — and the more cholesterol, the more common these buildups...
Even if middle-aged Americans seem healthy and have low heart disease risk, over 30% still have hidden plaque in their arteries — and most of them have a heart scan score of zero, meaning standard...
Even in healthy middle-aged Americans with no calcium in their heart arteries, higher 'bad' cholesterol levels are linked to more plaque buildup in the heart's blood vessels.
Middle-aged Americans who feel fine but have high 'bad' cholesterol are more likely to have hidden heart artery plaque, especially if they already show signs of artery calcification — and those with...
Middle-aged adults who feel fine but have very high 'bad' cholesterol might be more likely to have hidden heart plaque, even if they don’t have symptoms.
Even if a heart scan shows no calcium buildup, nearly 3 in 10 middle-aged people with high 'bad' cholesterol still have soft plaque in their arteries — meaning the usual heart risk test might miss...