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HEALTH: The danger of whole-body scans; cholesterol drugs...
...those saturated fats and that cholesterol from burgers and tacos and barbecued ribs went not just to Clinton's waist but into his blood as well. And those fats built up into fatty deposits known as plaques that slowly but surely massed within the walls of his heart arteries...
...gain it back again time after time. That's known as yo-yo dieting, and cardiologists believe it's even worse for the arteries than just staying fat, especially for someone like Clinton, with a stressful job and a family history of heart problems. When he became President, his cholesterol was a borderline 203. By the time he left office, it was a dangerous 233, and his blood pressure was 136 over...
...trial of the cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor last March found that high doses lowered patients' levels of LDL (the "bad" cholesterol) and also reduced their heart-attack risk. That's why the results of a new study on similarly high doses of the statin Zocor are so disappointing. In the 4,500patient study, published online by the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients taking high doses of Zocor fared no better than a low-dose group in terms of heart-attack risk, despite low LDL levels. Why? Perhaps because Lipitor works not just by lowering cholesterol but also...
...which measures how well the heart withstands exercise, scored above 100 on a follow-up screen for coronary calcium deposits. That puts them at elevated risk for a heart attack within five years. The study's authors say at-risk patients--such as smokers, diabetics or those with high cholesterol or blood pressure--should get a coronary calcium scan, even if they ace their stress test. --By Sora Song