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  • Menopause and your heart: Courtney's story

    Courtney shares her experience of the menopause, how it affected her and her cholesterol.

  • Prevention - SHARP

    The SHARP trial tested whether taking medication to lower cholesterol levels could reduce cardiovascular risk for people with chronic kidney disease.

  • Proving that statins save lives

    Our research helped to prove that lowering blood cholesterol using statins prevent the risk of heart attack and stroke.

  • Deaths from coronary heart disease plummet

    Reducing the nation’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels helped prevent over 20,000 people from dying prematurely from coronary heart disease according to a new study.

  • Statins and what they do

    Statins are medicines that help lower your cholesterol and protect your arteries. Understand what statins do, and are used for, the pros and cons, their side effects and potential alternatives.

  • Quiz: do you know the truth about statins?

    Find out how much you really know about statins and cholesterol with our quiz.

  • Stroke - STASH

    The STASH trial tested whether cholesterol lowering drugs could help people who have experienced a haemorrhagic stroke.

  • Focus on: Familial hypercholesterolaemia

    Anyone can develop high cholesterol as they age, but FH is a genetic condition, passed on to you by one of your parents. Professor Steve Humphries explains in this article

  • NHS and Novartis to collaborate to tackle heart disease

    A proposed collaboration between the NHS and pharmaceutical company Novartis to study cholesterol-lowering drug could save 30,000 lives over the next 10 years

  • Can statins lower dementia risk?

    We fact-check newspaper reports on a new study that suggest statins reduce the risk of dementia as well as lowering cholesterol.