Many people stop taking life-saving drugs after heart attacks

"From a societal perspective, we need to make sure the highest-risk individuals are being treated with guideline-directed therapy," said senior author Dr. Robert Rosenson, a professor of cardiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.Rosenson and colleagues write that the 2013 guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) recommend high-intensity statins for people 75 years and younger who have coronary heart disease.S