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Study finds healthy hearts may benefit from statins

NBR staff | Tuesday November 11, 2008 | 1 comment

Experts say the international guidelines on who is eligible for statins may need reworking after the publication of a study finding that people at low risk of heart disease may benefit from cholesterol medication.

The Jupiter trial results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, studied nearly 18,000 people and found that people with normal cholesterol levels had their risk of a heart attack reduced by 54% and stroke by 48% after taking the drug.