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• Crestor Backed by FDA for Patients With Normal Cholesterol Levels

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 759
  AstraZeneca ( AZN ) scored a win on Tuesday, when a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended broader use of Crestor, the companys cholesterol-lowering drug. The panel recommended that those with low cholesterol use the drug, following studies finding that Crestor reduces the risk of heart disease even ...
  2 days ago

• FDA Panel Backs Statin for Primary Prevention

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 163
  WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — An FDA advisory panel has overwhelminingly recommended that rousuvastatin (Crestor) be approved use in patients with no history of heart disease as long as the patients [...]
  3 days ago

• Normal Cholesterol Doesnt Guarantee Healthy Heart

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  MONDAY, Dec. 14 (HealthDay News) -- People with normal levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol still need to be screened for a marker of inflammation in order to identify those who may benefit from cholesterol-lowering statin therapy to reduce their long-term risk of heart attack , stroke and death, say U.S. researchers. ...
  3 days ago

• How to Handle Statin Muscle Aches and Weakness

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 486
  Statin drugs have revolutionized the treatment of elevated cholesterol levels. Not only do they lower cholesterol levels, but they also reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke independent of their cholesterol lowering effects – which is good news for anyone at risk for heart disease. Unfortunately, up to ten ...
  1 week ago

• Cholesterol Lowering Drugs

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 135
  The first line of treatment in lowering cholesterol levels are lifestyle changes such as proper diet, weight loss, and exercise. Along with lifestyle change, your doctor is also likely to prescribe medication to help in lowering and maintaining your cholesterol levels. A number of prescription drugs to lower ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free drugs can improve life after heart attack

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Toronto, Dec 1 (IANS) Providing free drugs to heart attack patients could improve their lives at a relatively low cost to the exchequer, says a new study.“Many patients are not benefiting from effective prescribed medications because they simply don’t fill their prescriptions,” says Irfan Dhalla, physician at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can High Fat Diets Cause Heart Disease?

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 444
  It is a sad fact that most people whose suffer a heart attack, do not see it coming. We tend to have this idea that it will always be “someone else”. Did you know that heart disease is the biggest killer in the western world and it is not declining as the number one way in which to die. Far from it, death from ...
  4 weeks ago

• Doubts Raised About Drug Zetia In New Trial

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 675
  Zetia has underperformed a vitamin according to the results of a new study. Zetia is taken by millions of Americans to lower LDL, when used in concert with statin drugs.
  4 weeks ago

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