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Statins, those wonder drugs that reduce cholesterol, have proven to be a lifesaver for people at high risk of having a heart attack. Among those who have already suffered one heart attack, statins have shown to cut the risk of another event by more than 30%, making them indispensable for the 8 million people in the U.S. who fall into this category...
What has been trickier to show is whether statins can also help healthy people avoid a first heart attack. But a new 10-year study of nearly 230,000 patients by researchers in Israel hints that the drugs may be up to the challenge...
...Granted, most of the people who benefited had high levels of LDL cholesterol, the "bad" cholesterol, to start, so they were more likely than others to be helped by the drugs' ability to prevent plaque build-up in artery walls. But many patients also had never had a heart attack or other heart event. That means statins may have helped stave off such an event altogether, a hopeful finding given that heart disease still kills more Americans than any other medical condition each year...
...have some growing evidence that indeed when statins are prescribed in the right indication in the right amounts, they can reduce heart attack and stroke and reduce death from cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology of Northwestern University and past president of the American Heart Association...
...puck following a melee in front of the net.“I thought we played very well on our defensive end today—we didn’t give them a lot,” Stone said.Five minutes later, Harvard made the breakthrough.In a swift counter-attack, Chute moved into the Brown half and passed the puck to Vaillancourt on the left wing. The forward raced through the middle, supported by Brine coming up on her left for a 2-on-1 play for the Crimson. With only Stock to beat, Vaillancourt slid a neat pass into...