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Cholesterol Drug Rosuvastatin Cuts Heart Attack Risk In Half - dbtechno.com
November 17, 2008, 4:07 am

Washington (dbTechno) - A drug which is used to fight high cholesterol, rosuvastatin (Crestor) has also been found to actually cut the risk of heart attack in half for most people. The Jupiter clinical trial found that the cholesterol-lowering drug ...

Statin Reduces Heart Attack, Stroke Risk - eMaxHealth.com
November 12, 2008, 8:33 pm

A lipid-lowering drug reduced heart attacks by 54 percent in people who had normal cholesterol but elevated levels of high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), according to a study presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions ...

Rosuvastatin Reduces Heart Attack, Stroke, Total Mortality - eMaxHealth.com
November 16, 2008, 11:35 pm

New Risk Assessment Tool Accurately Predicts Cardiovascular Risk Gender Matching Aids Long-Term Survival After Heart Transplants Heart Failure Patients Have More Doctor Visits, Medications New Blood Test Better Identifies Heart Failure Patients In ER ...

Rosuvastatin trial shows dramatic reduction in hidden heart disease - News-Medical.Net
November 13, 2008, 1:58 pm

A Harvard -led study shows that the risk of heart attack and stroke among subjects with "silent heart disease" - and normal cholesterol levels - can be dramatically reduced by the use of an already widely prescribed class of drugs. The international ...

Doctors debate how best to use preventive cholesterol drug - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
November 13, 2008, 3:53 pm

Possible benefits of expanding use of the cholesterol drug rosuvastatin: 30,000 fewer heart attacks, strokes or deaths each year Potential cost of each incident prevented: $203,000 Potential cost for each life saved: $480,000 New Orleans - With a ...

Interleukin Genetics' Heart Health Genetic Test a Tool for Identifying ... - MSN MoneyCentral
November 17, 2008, 3:59 am

WALTHAM, Mass. , Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- News that decreasing inflammation reduces the incidence of cardiovascular disease confirms the important contribution that Interleukin Genetics, Inc.'s ILI , Heart Health Genetic Test will have in ...

Wider Benefit Seen From Cholesterol Drugs - Star News Online
November 9, 2008, 3:58 pm

A large new study suggests that millions more people could benefit from taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, even if they have low cholesterol, because the drugs can significantly lower their risk of heart attacks, strokes and ...

Society for Women's Health Research Hails New Study That Finds Statins ... - AOL
November 15, 2008, 5:06 am

WASHINGTON , Nov. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time ever, a new study is providing direct evidence that cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins can prevent heart attacks, strokes and deaths among women. The study, released Sunday at ...

Why Aren't You Popping Big Pharma's Pills? - Lewrockwell.com
November 16, 2008, 4:44 am

Big Pharma needs a profit stream it can depend on. Please help . Guidelines on who is eligible for statins may need to be rewritten after an international trial found benefits in "healthy" adults, experts say. The study of 17,800 men and women with ...

Dr. Bill Elliott: C-reactive protein adds more questions for doctors - Marin Independent Journal
November 14, 2008, 3:59 pm

There is a new buzzword in the health-care lexicon. C-reactive protein or CRP has been all over the news in the past few weeks. It is a blood test that is a marker of inflammation in the blood stream. Doctors will measuring CRP levels to check for ...

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