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Tipton, KS | Many Cardiologists Take This Cheap Drug Years Before Heart Problems Ever Show Up
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C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, director of the Preventative & Rehabilitative Cardiac Center at Cedars-Sinai, says she sees this kind of calculation among physicians all the time. “If I give a lecture about some aspect of ischemic heart disease, and the audience is 100 percent cardiologists, and I say, ‘How many of you are taking a statin?’ almost every hand goes up.” Part of that is the audience—mainly men in their 50s, who may be more likely to have elevated cholesterol than a younger population is. But she says it also reflects the belief among physicians in the benefits of these pills.
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CARDIOLOGISTS ARE NOW talking about a risk called "LDL years." That's the number of years your arteries are exposed to high LDL cholesterol, says Adedapo Iluyomade, MD, cardiologist at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Baptist Health South Florida. The more years, the higher the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, or a heart attack.
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