From New Orleans, at a meeting of the American Heart Association
Early, aggressive use of cholesterol-lowering drugs in people who have had a mild heart attack or severe chest pain reduces the risk of heart problems in the near term, according to a new study.
Physicians have widely used a class of drugs called statins to lower cholesterol in patients at risk for heart disease.
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