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What's the effect of statins on cardiovascular disease?
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Beneficial: Statins have helped lower cholesterol as well as silent inflammation in many patients. With patients who have had a heart attach, maintaining LDL levels below 70 for 18 months have shown a reversal of plaque formation. However the statin itself will not prevent a heart attack or stroke. It is the combination of medication with lifestyle improvement that makes true changes.
Answered 10/23/2013
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Reduce: The statins as a class of drugs reduce cholesterol. Depending on the clinical situation, reduction of death, stroke, heart attack by data.
Answered 2/16/2013
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