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Crestor, known chemically as rosuvastatin, reduced heart attack, stroke, need for bypass or angioplasty procedures and cardiovascular death by a surprising 45 percent over less than two years.
“If your high sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) is high, you should be on statin therapy regardless of your cholesterol level. This is an approach we can start using tomorrow,” Willerson said.
“Getting CRP down on top of LDL lowering appears to have added incremental benefit,” Ridker said, (Editing by Maggie Fox and Eric Beech)
