Bempedoic acid may be an alternative for people who need to lower their cholesterol but can’t or won’t take statins, according to a large study
published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Statins are the most commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help lower what’s known as the “bad” cholesterol, or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the blood; more than 90% of adults who take a cholesterol-lowering medicine use a statin, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Statins are considered safe and effective, but there are millions of people who cannot or will not take them.
Bempedoic acid had no observed effect on mortality, but that may be because the observation period was too short to tell if it had that kind of impact. Earlier trials on statins showed the same; it was only after there were multiple studies on statins that scientists were able to show an impact on mortality. Dr.
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