For many adults, eating a healthy diet filled with cholesterol-lowering foods doesn't budge their high cholesterol. That's when taking certain medications like statins can help.

Statins are considered one of the safest kinds of cholesterol medications . They've been shown to bring down "bad" cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) as well as triglyceride numbers. However, doctors sometimes prescribe other drugs with statins to reduce cholesterol levels faster. One of those kinds of drugs, fibrates, is under question for being less effective at helping lower cardiovascular disease risk than originally thought.

Fibrates work in two ways. First, they make it difficult for the body to transport triglycerides, thus decreasing their numbers. Secondly, they promote the production of "good" cholesterol

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