NEW FDA WARNING ON STATIN DRUGS

New Warning on Statin Dose and Muscle Damage The FDA has issued a new warning about the cholesterol drug simvastatin (Zocor). It recommends that doctors ‘sharply curtail? prescriptions of 80 mg simvastatin, given to an estimated 2.1 million Americans last year,...

Low Vit. D Increased Risk for Artery Stiffness

From Cardiology Today: In a study of over 500 patients, low levels of the vitamin D marker 25-hydroxyvitamin D significantly increased the likelihood of arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction in the conductance and resistance blood vessels. ?Our findings...