Category : Heart Diseases : Health & Medical

How Do Statins Work?

Heart Diseases
In a nutshell, statins work (to lower cholesterol levels) in the following way: 1: They lower cholesterol synthesis in the liver. 2: The liver starts running out of the cholesterol needed to make VLDLs. 3: The liver then has to increase the number of LDL receptors to pull cholesterol back in to make