{"id":307044,"date":"2026-07-27T21:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:39:23","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-new-study-finds-millions-of-american-might-be-eligible-for-statins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307044\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | New Study Finds Millions Of American Might Be Eligible For Statins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A new study says updated guidelines regarding blood cholesterol treatment means 21 million more Americans may now be eligible for statins.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The medications lower cholesterol and help prevent cardiovascular events such as heart attack or stroke.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The study found that the age range for cardiovascular risk assessment for adults is now ages 30 to 79. It was previously ages 40 to 75.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New recommendations also lowers the thresholds used to categorize cardiovascular risk and puts more weight on certain medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Experts say people should first ask their doctors for a lipid panel to know their cholesterol numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study says updated guidelines regarding blood cholesterol treatment means 21 million more Americans may now be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-307044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}