Spending On Cholesterol Reducing Statins More Than Doubles In Just Five Years, USA
Jun 30th 2008Drug InformationCholesterol
Spending on statins, drugs used to reduce artery-clogging cholesterol, increased 156 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Statins can reduce a person’s risk of heart attack or stroke by lowering “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides, another fatty substance in the blood, and raising “good” cholesterol levels.
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