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The absolute mandate for improving cholesterol levels is to first make changes in lifestyle (both diet and exercise). Even when drugs are used, healthy diet and physical activity are critical companions.
Heart-Healthy Diets
There are many major dietary approaches for protecting health, such as the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, and healthy types of fats. Doctors generally agree on the following recommendations for heart protection:
- Choose fiber-rich food...
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Is Grapefruit Safe to Eat When Taking a Statin Drug?
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Heart Failure and Statin Drugs
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Study looks at rare statin side effect
Statin use has long been linked with a rare, poorly understood condition known as skeletal muscle atrophy. Now researchers working with zebrafish say... Read more »
FDA panel rejects non-prescription statin
For the third time in seven years, advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have voted to deny drugmaker Merck's request to make the... Read more »
Generics could save statin users a bundle
Doctors will have the option of prescribing a generic version of Zocor in June of 2006, when Merck's patent on its statin drug ends. Patients should... Read more »
Diet important to statin users, research suggests
Contrary to what many doctors believe, patients who take statins such as Zocor and Lipitor usually eat healthy, too, new research suggests. Doctors... Read more »
Statin use jumps more than 150 percent
A report by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has found that the use of cholesterol-lowering statins rose by 156 percent from 2000... Read more »
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