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Have a healthier heart: love your heart by reading up on the latest news on cholesterol--and its real role in cardiovascular disease.(Cover story)
If this country's cholesterol guidelines were fully implemented, most of the Western world's adult population would be taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, according to research published in the British Medical Journal. Based on the latest figures available, Lipitor was the top-selling drug in the world for the five years leading up to 2005, with annual sales of $12.9 billion in that year. Yet lowering cholesterol may not be as healthy as we believe.
"Cholesterol is essential for life," says Peter Langsjoen, MD, a cardiologist in Tyler, TX. "It has been extraordinarily vilified."
Twenty-five years ago, experts didn't know about lipoproteins and ...
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