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Before, we were taking numbers. you wanted to bring down your bad cholesterol. forget about that, no more chasing numbers. number two, more importantly who needs to be on medication. people with risk factors. you re looking at overall risk factors. whether you have diabetes or cardiovascular disease. if you have that probability of developing an m.i. or a stroke, you need to be on medication. number three, what medications are the ones we re talking about? we re talking about statins. they are the only ones up to this point that have been shown to reduce heart attack, and strokes. now comes a different story because there s other types of medication that have been in the pipelines. these are the pcsk-9 inhibitors. which is basically new medication that s going to target a specific gene to lower bad cholesterols. the pharmaceutical companies are saying that s okay, it s going to work, we don t need to do a lot of studies. now doctors are saying, wait, you told us not to chase ....

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