Sunday, March 13, 2016

Heart attacks could be reduced by rethinking the way we prescribe statins

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 03:00 AM PST
Millions of people today take statins to help lower their cholesterol level. Currently statins are prescribed to patients based on their future risk of cardiovascular disease - mainly driven by age - which excludes many individuals who may benefit from them. A new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal, with collaborators from the United-States, is changing the way we think about prescribing statins.

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