CHICAGO (Reuters) - New guidelines on heart health that sparked fierce debate among U.S. cardiologists last fall could lead 12.8 million more Americans to take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, U.S.

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Dallas (Reuters) – Top cardiologists who devised new U.S. guidelines for reducing risk of heart disease strenuously defended their risk-calculation tool from criticism that it greatly overestimates ...

The guidelines advocate for more aggressive treatment with statin therapy. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S. The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology ...

The nation’s first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes call for twice as many Americans — one-third of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs ...

According to the new criteria%2C 31%25 of adults are good candidates for statins%2C compared with 15.5%25 now Some experts worry about exposing more people to statins%27 side effects%2C including ...