STATINS GET CREDIT FOR BIG REDUCTION OF BAD CHOLESTEROL

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American Heart Association reports percentage meeting cholesterol standards has doubled in decade; study from Netherlands finds statins can protect nerve cells against damage known to occur in Alzheimer's

STATINS GET CREDIT FOR BIG REDUCTION OF BAD CHOLESTEROL, PROTECTION FROM ALZHEIMER?S DISEASE

June 22, 2009 ? The news for statins today was great. The American Heart Association credits statins as a significant reason that the percentage of people lowering their elevated ?bad? cholesterol to within the recommended range has almost doubled in the last decade. And, from The Netherlands comes a study showing statins can protect us from Alzheimer?s disease.

The good newsabout the dramatic reduction in ?bad? cholesterol comes from a multi-national survey reported today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

In the Lipid Treatment Assessment Project (L-TAP) 2 ? a survey of nearly 10,000 patients (average age 62) from nine countries undergoing cholesterol-lowering and management efforts ? researchers found that:

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