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Aggressive Use of Cholesterol Drug Questioned

The June 19, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the practice of automatically giving heart attack patients cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may be dangerous.

The problem lies in the fact that many times doctors put heart attack patients on the drugs without checking to see whether or not the patient has high cholesterol. The idea being that this will help reduce the risk of death and prevent second heart attacks.

The study suggests that this approach needs to be re-evaluated. Patients without high cholesterol who took the drugs were found to have a higher risk of death or second heart attack than patients with high cholesterol.

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