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    DRUG NEWS

    Sep 22, 2019 3 minutes

    Statins aren’t working for 50 percent of patients…

    Statin drugs aren’t working for half the people taking them to control their cholesterol levels.

    Although the drug’s manufacturers are expected to achieve $1 trillion in sales by next year, statins aren’t reducing the so-called ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol to healthy levels in 50 percent of patients, which means they are unwittingly still at greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

    Researchers aren’t sure why the drugs have such a low rate of effectiveness. It could be because side-effects—such as muscle

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