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POSITIVE REDUCTION: Frank M. Sacks (left) of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University led a study that demonstrated that lowering cholesterol in patients from average to low levels significantly reduced the number of recurrent coronary events. The research team also included Lemuel A. Moye (right) of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston. |
Comments by Frank M. Sacks, associate professor of medicine and nutrition, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University.
Since the mid-1980s, physicians have known some of the health benefits from lowering cholesterol in patients with coronary...
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