New study showed that even healthy people with low cholesterol levels benefit from taking cholesterol drugs. The study found that healthy people had a dramatic reduction in heart attack, stroke and death by 44 percent. The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine and an article can on the study can be found on CNN. Suggest sending Dr. Gupta a comment on his blog on this issue here.
This issue is especially important in light of another report that says that US heart failure hospitalization has tripled over the last three decades. These hospitalization are extremely expensive and burdening our healthcare system to the breaking point. Prevention with cholesterol drugs, changes in diet and more exercise are definitely necessary to curb these trends. To read more on this click here.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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