A major international study has found that obese middle-aged and older adults now face a similar risk of heart attack to that of their slimmer and healthy counterparts, with bad cholesterol in obese over-60s now lower than in some people with a normal body mass index. …
Widespread use of statins narrows heart-risk gap between overweight and normal-weight adults
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