By Dr. Mercola
By Dr. Mercola
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a federal advisory board, has issued a draft recommendation that certain healthy adults should start taking statin cholesterol-lowering drugs as a form of preventive medicine.
Their guidelines suggest people between the ages of 40 and 75 with at least one risk factor for heart disease and a 10 percent or greater risk of heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years should take statins.
This advice applies to people who have not had a previous heart attack or stroke,1 and follows similar 2013 recommendations made …read more
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