Tue
Jan 29 2008
09:31 am
By: Carole Borges
Tara Parker-Pope of the NYT health blog explores the popularity of statins and stirs some interesting comments.
"Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are among the most popular prescription drugs in the world. In addition to lowering cholesterol, they also lower the risk for heart attacks.
But as I report in my Well column for Tuesday’s Science Times, there is little, if any, data showing that statin drugs prolong life in the majority of people who take them."
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