“A new kind of pill sharply reduced artery-clogging cholesterol in people who remain at high risk of heart attacks despite taking statins, researchers reported Wednesday…

In a major study, more than 2,900 high-risk patients were randomly assigned to add a daily enlicitide pill or a dummy drug to their standard treatment. The enlicitide users saw their LDL cholesterol drop by as much as 60% over six months, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There are other pills that patients can add to their statins ‘but none come close to the degree of LDL cholesterol lowering that we see with enlicitide,’ said study lead author Dr. Ann Marie Navar, a cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center.”

From Associated Press.