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'Experts' Recommend Higher Doses of Cholesterol Drugs

  • March 08, 2004

Worldwide, 25 million people take drugs known as statins to lower their cholesterol, but according to the 'experts' 200 million could use them. Now researchers are saying that using higher doses of statins--doses double those currently used--reduces the risk of heart attack, bypass surgery and chest pains more than 'gentler' doses. This will likely put pressure on doctors to use even more aggressive--and more expensive--doses of statin drugs. The United States already spends more on...