Fast Food and Statins: The New Combo Meal
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on August 21st, 2010 in Health Care Policy, In The News, Linked Articles.
One burger, a large order of fries, and some free statins. What if you could bypass the doctor and the pharmacist and get your statins directly from your fast-food provider? Talk about cutting out the middle-man.
At least that’s what researchers at Imperial College London have suggested in a recent study, as reported in ScienceDaily. The paper, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, indicates that the effect of a statin is enough to offset the increased risk of heart attack caused by eating a cheeseburger and a milkshake. It turns out that the statin reduces risk to approximately the same degree as fast food increases it.
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Fast Food-Statin Combo Meal
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