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Comments by David Waters, Hartford Hospital, Connecticut

Cholesterol-lowering drugs have become a multimillion-dollar industry over the past decade. Medications such as lovastatin, which inhibits the action of the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, are widely prescribed by physicians for people with extremely high cholesterol. Yet how these drugs affect coronary atherosclerosis-a condition directly linked to abnormally high cholesterol levels-had not been fully characterized by clinicians.

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