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Does a high cholesterol level increase the risk of a heart attack? Medicine seems unable to come up with a definitive answer to this seemingly simple question, and two new studies do little to res ...
Amid our mania for all but cutting out fat from the diet, medical experts now confess that lowering cholesterol isn't such a good idea in preventing a heart attack. ... ...
Medical experts have finally agreed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being given out unnecessarily to people. ...
Cholesterol lowering drugs should be offered only as a last resort, a government funded body has reported. Patients should first be encouraged to stop smoking, take exercise and improve their diet ...
Lowering cholesterol levels before a patient has a balloon angioplasty operation does not stop or delay the veins closing up again. ...
Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the drug prevents, 316 patients would have to be tr ...
The widely prescribed cholesterol lowering drug pravastatin is little better than a sugar pill in protecting against a second heart attack, a major study has discovered. ...
ONE PINT OF LAGER and a packet of statins
The latest in the ongoing cholesterol controversy is that low cholesterol could be bad for your health. ...
