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Cardiac Rehabilitation |
Red Yeast Rice and Statin Therapy05/20/2008 |
Is red yeast rice a viable alternative to statin therapy? And what about plant sterols/stanols?
Red rice yeast contains a statin, lovastatin, so needs liver tests to follow for risk of liver damage. Plant sterols are useful, but not reliable.
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Glen F Aukerman, MD, DABFP Professor of Family Medicine OSU Integrative Medicine Department of Family Medicine College of Medicine The Ohio State University |
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