Cholesterol-lowering drugs are working

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cholesterol levels among U.S. adults have been decreasing since the late 1980s. While some of the improvement can be attributed to dietary improvements such as switching from unhealthy trans fats to vegetable oils, cholesterol-lowering medications are also thought to play an important role.

During the course of the study, in which total cholesterol fell from 206 milligrams per deciliter in 1988-1994 to 196 in 2007-2010 (along with a similar decrease in "bad" LDL cholesterol), use of "statin" and other cholesterol-lowering drugs increased from 3 percent to 15 percent among study participants. Current statistics suggest about one-quarter of U.S. adults age 45 and older take statin drugs.

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