"More than 39,000 deaths, nearly 100,000 non-fatal heart attacks and up to 65,000 strokes in the U.S. could be prevented if people eligible for statins and other cholesterol-lowering drugs were taking them, researchers reported Monday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine....
"Along with warding off heart attacks and strokes, properly prescribed statins also could prevent every year nearly 88,000 heart bypass surgeries and procedures to reopen blocked or clogged arteries, researchers estimated."
I am glad I had the double bypass but if you can avoid it, it is better.
I am leery of statins. A friend of mine who is a hospice nurse notes that 100% of her patients who were suffering dementia were on statins, while my doctor's answer to that was that everyone else was on them too.
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