The New England Journal of Medicine reports that two best selling cholesterol drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, that combine a statin with a new drug have no better outcomes than the statin alone. The results of the study were available but not released for two years while the drug makers piled up the profits. You might be better off taking the natural red yeast with some niacin and fish oils, all of which have separate mechanisms of action that can help prevent heart attacks and strokes. Fixation on cholesterol alone just doesn’t work.
Go to the New England Journal of Medicine and
American College of Cardiology
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