According to a study, the benefits of using statins, a kind of popular cholesterol-lowering drugs, largely outweigh the risks. The study also revealed that they were not linked to an increase in cancer risk.
Read MorePeople with high levels of "good cholesterol," HDL-C, tend to have fewer heart attacks, but HDL-C may offer little protection to people who take statins to lower harmful LDL cholesterol, researchers recently reported.
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