noun

• Any of a group of drugs that act to reduce levels of fats, including triglycerides and cholesterol, in the blood.

  ‘With reduced levels of cholesterol, statins also inhibit the synthesis of bile acids.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Some of the patients in each group were also treated with a statin to lower blood cholesterol.’
  • ‘Use of aspirin and statins lowers C-reactive protein levels, but so does weight loss.’
  • ‘Health chiefs say that the level of cholesterol lowering drugs, statins, prescribed by GPs, has exceeded predicted levels.’
  • ‘The current stars in this field are the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.’