November 9th, 2008, 11:49 AM
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 Study: Wider Cholesterol Drug Use May Save Lives | |
Now the drug companies want to convince people with already low cholesterol and no history of heart disease to take their cholesterol lowering drugs--even though they cause all kinds of bad side effects! Makes me want to scream! Imagine that healthy people with low risk of heart attack in the first place had less heart attacks! Quote:
November 9, 2008
Study: Wider Cholesterol Drug Use May Save Lives
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:44 a.m. ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease dramatically lowered their chances of dying or having a heart attack if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
The results, reported Sunday at an American Heart Association conference, were hailed as a watershed event in heart disease prevention. Doctors said the study might lead as many as 7 million more Americans to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, sold as Crestor, Lipitor, Zocor or in generic form.
''This takes prevention to a whole new level, because it applies to patients who we now wouldn't have any evidence to treat,'' said Dr. W. Douglas Weaver, a Detroit cardiologist and president of the American College of Cardiology.
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