Higher-dose use of certain statins often best for cholesterol issues
Monday, October 15, 2012 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
A comprehensive new review on how to treat high cholesterol and other blood lipid problems suggests that intensive treatment with high doses of statin drugs is usually the best approach. But some statins work much better for this than others, the review concluded, and additional lipid-lowering medications added to a statin have far less value.