Statins Improve Outcomes for Heart Attack and Stroke Patients after Hospital Discharge

Researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake say that patients who have had a previous heart attack or stroke have better outcomes when cholesterol-lowering medications are used after they're discharged from the hospital.The team looked at more than 62,000 records of patients from the Intermountain Healthcare system between 1999 and 2013 who survived an initial atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease event. They were then followed for three years, or until dea