Many at high heart risk don't get enough drugs

Reuters reports on a new study that found patients hospitalized after suffering a heart attack are missing the kind of intensive cholesterol-lowering drugs that could save their lives. It is recommended that people who have survived a heart attack be placed on intensive lipid-lowering therapy, but those guidelines are often not followed, according to data from the new study. Study author Dr. Gregg Fonarow said because physicians are not advising treatments based on what has proven effective, "there are patients that are having coronary events that could have been prevented."