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More than 39,000 deaths, nearly 100,000 non-fatal heart attacks and up to 65,000 strokes in the U.S. could be prevented if ...

High cholesterol does not usually present any obvious symptoms, which is why it is often referred to as a 'silent killer'.

Tens of thousands of people suffer needless heart attacks and strokes every year because they aren't taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, a new study says.

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Analysis of a nationwide cohort of older Swedish adults shows that most of the drugs once thought to trigger microscopic colitis actually don’t increase the risk.

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Thanks to medical advancements, heart attack deaths have dropped nearly 90% in the last 50 years. But deaths from these chronic conditions are on the rise.

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Aspirin has recently been questioned as a preventive for heart attacks, even though we have been using it for decades. Statin ...