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" Take a pill you don&amp;#x27;t need? It&amp;#x27;s sounds bizarre if not totally unhealthy, right? But new research is actually hinting that healthy people should be medicated for health condition they don&amp;#x27;t have--well, one anyway. Read on for the surprising details ... **** Statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs taken by people with high cholestorol levels, may find their way to your medicine cabinet soon--even if you don&amp;#x27;t need them-- at least that&amp;#x27;s the hopes of some medical experts. A major study conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women&amp;#x27;s Hospital in Boston, which followed more than 17,800 patients with normal or low levels of &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; cholesterol. Half were given the statin Crestor, a cholesterol-lowering medication. The other half were given a placebo. The results were quite surprising: Those that took Crestor had 54 percent fewer heart attacks, 48 percent less strokes, and the kicker: 20 percent fewer deaths. Before you ask your doc for a prescription, health experts warn that more research needs to be done to understand the long-term effects of statin use. And, it&amp;#x27;s also important to note that the study looked at men and women in their 50s and 60s, so it&amp;#x27;s not clear what the recommendation might be for the younger generation. My take? I&amp;#x27;m not comfortable with the idea of popping pills your body doesn&amp;#x27;t actually &amp;quot;need.&amp;quot; But, I&amp;#x27;ll be interested to follow news on this subject in the coming months/years. For now, I&amp;#x27;ll stick to my multivitamin. Besides, I think America is a little overmedicated as it is. Would you take a pill you didn&amp;#x27;t need--even if there was a chance it could prevent death? Photo: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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