Heart Disease

Statins Raise Levels of "Good" Cholesterol

Published in Sex Weekly Plus, September 21st, 1998

A new international study shows a class of drugs known as statins raises levels of the good cholesterol, John R. Crouse III, MD, reported in a presentation on August 24, 1998, to the European Society of Cardiology in Vienna, Austria.

Crouse, professor of internal medicine (endocrinology/metabolism) and director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said the study, together with other information presented at the meeting, re-emphasizes the importance of the so-called good cholesterol - high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.

"These results suggest that HDL may have a greater import than we have...

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