Does U.S. Want All Older Adults on Cholesterol Medication?

Stirring fresh controversy in the medical world, researchers said that nearly every male and most women over 55 could fall under new US guidelines for who should take cholesterol lowering drugs. If applied to a group of 5,000 otherwise healthy people over that age in The Netherlands, 96 percent of men and two thirds of women could be prescribed some sort of statin, said the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That is far more than ...

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