Statins cut stroke risk by a fifth, study finds
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 02:35
in Health & Medicine
LONDON (Reuters) - Cholesterol-lowering drugs cut the risk of strokes by about a fifth, according to a pooled analysis of 24 past clinical studies involving 165,000 people.
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