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How can you lower bad ldl cholesterol?
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Combination : Of diet, exercise and most likely medications like a statin. See your doctor.
Answered 8/5/2012
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Always diet and: Exercise is best answer, then statins. Statins have certain toxicities and unpleasantness and dosage can be reduced somewhat with the triglyceride lowering drug vascepa which also lowers LDL cholesterol.
Answered 4/26/2014
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