Don’t need high cholesterol to benefit from statins
New studies provide additional context to debate about whether there are benefits to initiating statin use in people who don’t already have high cholesterol or cardiovascular disease.
Miles Martin
• harvard
Dec. 6, 2023 • ~5 min
Dec. 6, 2023 • ~5 min
Health care spending on Medicare elderly dips, study finds
Health care spending among the Medicare population age 65 and older has slowed dramatically since 2005, and as much as half of that reduction can be attributed to reduced spending on cardiovascular disease, a new Harvard study has found.
Peter Reuell
• harvard
Feb. 4, 2019 • ~8 min
Feb. 4, 2019 • ~8 min
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