Tag Archives: Cholesterol

One daily pill combined with four cholesterol and blood pressure medications taken with low doses of aspirin reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and heart-related death in an international study, leading to widespread use of this “polypil” in international studies. Approach For more than a decade, doctors have been …

Scientists have suggested that a cholesterol-lowering drug could make coronavirus as treatable as the common cold. Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York studied the possibility of depriving the virus of the nutrients Covid-19 needs to survive. They found that the fat that accumulates inside lung cells is …