News for April 1st, 2008

Doctors say stay with statins

As news of Vytorin’s lackluster performance in clinical tests circulates throughout the medical community, many prominent physicians are advocating a return to the use of statins to treat high . Statins, such as Crestor, Zocor, and Lipitor, lower the liver’s production of LDL (bad) . Research shows that statins also reduce cardiac events by 60 percent and strokes by 17 percent.

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