Statins pay off on a health-policy level, UCSF study finds

Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 05:01 in Health & Medicine

Current guidelines for when to prescribe popular cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins would produce cost-effective results and would save thousands of lives every year if they were followed more closely by physicians and patients, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco...

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