High Cholesterol

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QWhat should I know before taking statins?

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A Univ. of Nev. School of Medicine, Family Medicine answered

Before taking statins, you should know that statins are medications that are meant to help lower your cholesterol. Statins have been proven to help people with certain risk factors live longer.

Although blood cholesterol helps digest food and make hormones, too much of it can harden your arteries and cause heart disease. Also known as hypercholesterolemia, high blood cholesterol can accumulate along the walls of your arteries, the main supplier of oxygen from the heart to other parts of your body.