Statin reduces heart burden


  • Health
  • Sunday, 19 Mar 2006

A new study indicates that intensive statin therapy may partially reverse plaque build-up in arteries. 

A STUDY presented recently at the American College of Cardiology’s 55th Annual Scientific Session (ACC.06) demonstrates, for the first time, that very intensive cholesterol lowering with a statin drug can regress (partially reverse) the build-up of plaque in the coronary arteries.  

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