Cholesterol drugs can help with heart disease

Wednesday, March 9, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Giving people with modestly clogged arteries high doses of a drug to drive their cholesterol down to low levels cut their risk of strokes and heart attacks even more impressively than expected, the first study to test this strategy found.

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