Cardiology

Evacetrapib fails to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events

Despite lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL), known as "bad" cholesterol, while markedly increasing levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good" cholesterol, a large clinical trial to investigate the cholesterol ...

Cardiology

One in five US kids over age 5 has unhealthy cholesterol: CDC

(HealthDay)—Twenty-one percent of American children and teens have some form of "abnormal" blood cholesterol reading that leaves them at heightened risk for heart disease and stroke as they reach adulthood.

Medications

Merck continuing study of cholesterol drug in new class

Merck & Co. said Friday that it will continue a huge patient study of an experimental cholesterol medicine, the last one standing in a once-promising class of drugs being developed to prevent heart attacks, after an independent ...

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