Two common drugs taken together ‘slash your risk of dying from heart attack and stroke’

TAKING two common drugs together could slash your levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol and lower the risk of death from heart attack and stroke, a study showed.

This method of treating high cholesterol could prevent thousands of deaths a year from heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases, researchers said.

AlamyTaking statins in combination with a second cholesterol lowering drug can slash risk of heart attacks and strokes, researchers said[/caption]

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