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People With Normal Cholesterol Benefit From Statin from Steven Nissen, MD

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Views: 653 | Comments: 2
From: Steven Nissen, MD Category:  Cholesterol

Added: Nov 11, 2008


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A new study, JUPITER, showed that people with normal cholesterol, and a high CRP level benefit from treatment with a statin. CRP is a measure of inflammation that has been linked to heart disease.




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healthnut (Nov 15, 2008)
I take 2.5 mg of Crestor and I think my doc is right on the money about routinely taking a Statin. Thanks so much for this study.

docdrh (Nov 11, 2008)
This is a pretty remarkable study. I am a health care practitioner, and I am going to start taking crestor!
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