Word: noncholesterol
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Statins were much in the news last week. They are so successful in preventing heart attacks that researchers are furiously investigating all the other things these drugs might be doing for the heart besides lowering cholesterol levels. It turns out that the noncholesterol effects of statins, such as controlling clotting and inflammation, may be as important as the cholesterol effects. In a study of patients given atorvastatin (Lipitor) as soon as they arrived at a hospital complaining of chest pain, it was found that those who took the drug for four weeks after their cardiac event were significantly less likely...
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