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Free Statins With Fast Food Could Neutralize Heart Risk
Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of
(51) so that customers can
(52) the heart disease dangers of fatty food, researchers at Imperial College London suggest in a new study.
Statins reduce the
(53) 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
(54) the reduction in heart attack risk offered by a statin is
(55) to offset the increase in heart attack risk
(56) eating a cheeseburger and drinking a milkshake.
Dr Francis, from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London,
(57) is the senior author of the study, said: "Statins don't
(58) all of the unhealthy effects of cheeseburgers and French fries. It's
(59) to avoid fatty food altogether. But we've worked out that in terms of your possobility 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
(60) that people are free to take as many unhealthy condiments in fast food outlets as they like, but statins, which are beneficial
(61) heart health, have to be prescribed. It makes sense to make risk-reducing statins available just
(62) the unhealthy condiments that are
(63) free of charge. It would cost less than pence per
(64) —not much different to a sachet of sugar, "Dr Francis said.
When people engage in risky behaviours like driving or smoking, they're encouraged to
(65) measures that lower their risk, like wearing a seatbelt or choosing cigarettes with filters. Taking a statin is a rational way of lowering some of the risks of eating a fatty meal.