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Transcript: Analysis: New study about use of statin drugs conflicts with results of earlier study of heart attack patients
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RENEE MONTAGNE
Morning Edition (NPR)
08-31-2004
Analysis: New study about use of statin drugs conflicts with results of earlier study of heart attack patients
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Recent studies have shown that heart attack patients treated with high doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs had a much lower risk of having another heart attack. So last month, federal officials urged doctors to treat these high-risk patients very aggressively to get their cholesterols ultra-low. However, a new study doesn't show the same benefit as the earlier studies. As NPR's Richard Knox reports, that raises questions about whether all statin drugs are equally ...