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Doctors have known for a decade that statin drugs can prevent or reduce the severity of cardiovascular disease by lowering blood levels of LDL. But how low is low enough? A landmark study of more than 4,000 heart patients compared a standard LDL-lowering regimen (40 mg of Pravachol) with an intensive regimen (80 mg of Lipitor) and found that even though both reduced LDL levels to below the recommended benchmark of 100 mg/dL, the patients on the higher dose were 16% less likely than those on the lower dose to get worse or die. The bottom line: what...
...pain reliever Vioxx might raise the risk of heart attacks and stroke surfaced in 2000, but it still came as a shock when drugmaker Merck announced in October that it was pulling its blockbuster drug off the market. Safety data from an ongoing trial had produced clear evidence of cardiovascular problems in subjects taking Vioxx--so clear that the trial was immediately halted...
...raise public awareness in the hope of getting to the at-risk population before it's too late. Such large-scale mobilization may be the only way to get the problem back in check. "There's good evidence hypertension can be controlled," says Dr. Darwin Labarthe, acting chief of cardiovascular health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "but it will take an intense, sustained effort...
...There is a doubling of cardiovascular risks that begins at this point," says Dr. George Bakris of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. That means up to 45 million people who thought they were on safe ground may be at risk...
...cardiovascular benefit of a daily glass of red wine brought new meaning--and enthusiasm--to the toast "To your health!" Left out of the party was anybody who wanted the heart-healthy benefits of wine without the side effects--pleasant and unpleasant--of the alcohol it contains. Now, it seems, anyone can join the purple-mustache club. According to a small study underwritten in part by Welch Foods, unfermented Concord grape juice will also increase HDL--good cholesterol--while lowering the levels of two compounds linked to coronary artery disease. --By David Bjerklie