Lifestyle changes & supplements outperform statins

Investigators from the US have carried out a randomised trial involving 74 patients with hypercholesterolemia who were either given 40 mg of simvastatin daily with routine counselling or an alternative treatment with therapeutic lifestyle changes, ingestion of red yeast rice and fish oil supplements for 12 weeks. There was a statistically significant reduction in low-density lipoprotein cholestero ...

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