We need more than medicine to prevent heart disease
Like more than half of older men, I take a cholesterol-lowering medication called a statin. Sometimes that seems a bit strange, because I don’t have high cholesterol. My doctor prescribed it based on a formula that largely hinges on age and sex.
I’m 71 and male. Those two factors alone put me in the high-risk category for …
We need more than medicine to prevent heart disease

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