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Statins Improve Health Of Healthy People Too
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 14:49 - http://www.currentworldnews.net/Toronto (CWN) - If your looking to reduce your risk of having a heart attack, a new study says to take statin drugs.'Statins are a class of drugs that people take to lower their level of bad...
Indoor Pollution Linked to Heart Disease Risk: Are Statins the Answer?
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 14:42 - http://www.emaxhealth.com/Researchers have uncovered the role of low-level air pollution on heart disease. Studies have shown that EPA standards are not low enough to protect our blood vessels from inflammation leading to...
Cholesterol Drug Rosuvastatin Cuts Heart Attack Risk In Half
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 13:19 - http://www.dbtechno.com/Washington (dbTechno) - A drug which is used to fight high cholesterol, rosuvastatin (Crestor) has also been found to actually cut the risk of heart attack in half for most people.'The Jupiter...
New Evidence Found for CRP as an Independent Marker for Heart Disease, Stroke
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 09:46 - http://www.prweb.com/A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine lends further importance to the screening of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the detection of heart disease and stroke risk. Life Line...
Ask Dr. H: Cholesterol fluctuates often
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 09:01 - http://www.philly.com/Question: I am a thin, 55-year-old female in good health other than mild treated hypothyroidism. My cholesterol profile just two months ago showed an LDL ("bad") cholesterol level of 79. I just...
Rosuvastatin Reduces Heart Attack, Stroke, Total Mortality
Published on Monday 17 November 2008 - 08:40 - http://www.emaxhealth.com/Until now, there has been no proven method to detect and prevent the many heart attacks and strokes that occur in patients with normal or low cholesterol levels.'read more
Reality Check: Can Soy lower cholesterol?
Published on Sunday 16 November 2008 - 20:10 - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/Reality Check: There is evidence that soy can improve cholesterol, but the jury is still out.
Justice Investigates Marketing of Vytorin by Merck and Schering-Plough
Published on Sunday 16 November 2008 - 19:50 - http://charlottesville.injuryboard.com/The U.S. Department of Justice has begun investigating Merck s conduct relating to their marketing of Vytorin, an anti-cholesterol medication.'A study released in January by the pharmaceutical...
Eat Your Statins
Published on Sunday 16 November 2008 - 12:20 - http://www.forbes.com/New research makes a pretty conclusive case for putting millions more Americans on cholesterol drugs.
Answer may not be drugs, but it's surely lower cholesterol
Published on Sunday 16 November 2008 - 06:00 - http://www.post-gazette.com/For local cardiologists, the results of last week's groundbreaking study on heart disease and cholesterol drugs reaffirmed a long, firmly held belief: Lower cholesterol levels can save lives.
