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Why Women Should Stop Their Cholesterol Lowering Medication
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, statins, heart, research, risks, cholesterol )

Nancy
- 108 days ago - drhyman.com
If you are a post-menopausal women with high cholesterol, your doctor will almost certainly recommend cholesterol lowering medication or statins. And it just might kill you.
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Seven Tips to Fix Your Cholesterol Without Medication
Health & Wellness  (tags: statins, heart, research, risks, cholesterol, big pharma )

Nancy
- 108 days ago - drhyman.com
At best this new "super cholesterol" drug by will lower cholesterol numbers without killing too many people while increasing health care costs by billions of dollars as millions of new prescriptions are written for this new "super cholesterol drug.
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New Heart Attack Jab Even More Effective Than Statins
Health & Wellness  (tags: heart attack, statins, health, wellness )

Katie
- 402 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A simple injection given to patients up to 12 hours after a heart attack or stroke could reduce their devastating effects by more than half, a new study claims.
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Patients on Statins to Lower Cholesterol 'at Less Risk of Arthritis' Study Finds
Health & Wellness  (tags: Drugs, Patients, cholesterol, arthritis, statins, health )

Anna
- 626 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Drugs taken by millions of patients to cut cholesterol levels may also keep arthritis at bay.Regular doses of statins reduce the chance of developing the crippling condition by nearly half, a study found.
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Statins May Cut Arthritis Risk, Study Suggests
Health & Wellness  (tags: Statins, arthritis risk, study, research, drugs )

Nancy
- 626 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Israeli researchers looked at 1.8m patients and found fewer incidents of the joint condition among those who took the cholesterol-busting drugs.
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