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*第十二篇:Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk(B 级)
*第十二篇 Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk(B 级)
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge so that customers can
reduce the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London
suggest in a new study.
Statins reduce the amount of unhealthy“LDL” cholesterol in the blood. A
wealth of trial data has proven them to be highly effective at lowering a person’s heart
attack risk.
In a paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology,Dr Darrel Francis
and colleagues calculate that the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statin
is enough to offset the increase in heart attack risk from eating a cheeseburger and
drinking a milkshake.
Dr Francis,from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College
London,who is the senior author of the study, said:“Statins don’t cut out a11 of
the unhealthy effects of cheeseburgers and French ’s better to avoid fatty food
we’ve worked out that in terms of your possibility of having a heart
attack,taking a statin can reduce your risk to more or less the same degree as a fast
food meal increases it.”
“It’s ironic that people are free to take as many unhealthy condiments in fast food
outlets as they like , but sta