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He said he hoped soon to launch a nationwide study of statins in people with low cholesterol but high C-reactive protein levels.
A new study seems to suggest that millions of people with low cholesterol could benefit from taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.
But, because most people with low cholesterol levels are at relatively low risk of a heart attack, many people would need to be treated to prevent one of them from having a heart attack.
High levels of the chemical may explain why some people with low cholesterol develop heart disease or why rigid adherence to a cholesterol-lowering diet sometimes fails to prevent serious heart problems.
The study was conducted by doctors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Their report indicated that 6.5 million older adults with low cholesterol but high CRP levels might benefit from statins.
Many believed CRP caused heart disease, especially after a widely publicized study released last year suggested that people with low cholesterol but high CRP levels had fewer heart attacks if they took a statin, a cholesterol-lowering drug that also lowers CRP.
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Third, in the cohort of gallstone carriers and controls the D19H polymorphism of the ABCG8 gene was associated with a low cholesterol absorption but not with altered de novo synthesis.
In this respect, Miettinen et al. [12] have proposed, that subjects can be characterized as cholesterol absorbers (with a low cholesterol synthesis) or as cholesterol synthesizers (with a low cholesterol absorption).
The combined evidence from many such trials shows that statins reduce the risk of a heart attack or stroke even in those with relatively low cholesterol levels.
"Thankfully I am blessed with crazily low cholesterol so I didn't worry about that too much.
But a more recent study of 12,000 American men and women found that high Lp-PLA2 levels were an independent heart-disease risk factor mainly in those patients with relatively low cholesterol levels.
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