Treat the risk, not the cholesterol: Study challenges current guidelines
2,223 views · Published 18 January 2010 · 1:48 · Indexed 29 October 2026
Channel: Michigan Medicine · 2010 · Science & Technology
A new study suggests that the current approach to treating peoples cholesterol is wrong. The findings, based on mathematical prediction tools, show more lives would be saved -- and more heart attacks prevented -- if doctors prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin drugs according to a patient's heart attack risk factors, rather than trying to reach a certain cholesterol target. The University of Michigan Medical School and Veterans Affairs Health System study may lead to new national guidelines on statin treatments.
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