Cholesterol levels dropping in US, but many still need care

WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s some good health news: Cholesterol levels are dropping in the U.S.
Researchers examined records of people taking cholesterol-lowering medicine between 2005 and 2016, a few years after a big change in treatment guidelines. They found encouraging declines, suggesting the change may be paying off.
Rather than just basing care on patients’ level of so-called “bad” cholesterol, doctors now are supposed to take into account additional risk factors