Loading ...Despite facing a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, patients with type 2 diabetes often take a combination of drugs designed to lower their LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglyceride levels while raising their HDL (good cholesterol) due to the belief from doctors that taken together, the drugs offer protection from heart attacks and improve survival.
Three doctors, who recently served on a Food and Drug Administrative panel, analyzed the drugs’ effectiveness and explained that commonly prescribed medications have not been proven successful at preventing heart attacks in patients who have high cholesterol with Type 2 diabetes.
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