Statin RX may be overprescribed in healthy people without evidence of diseased arteries

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 06:20 in Health & Medicine

Rolling back suggestions from previous studies, a Johns Hopkins study of 950 healthy men and women has shown that taking daily doses of a cholesterol-lowering statin medication to protect coronary arteries and ward off heart attack or stroke may not be needed for everyone...

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