{"id":76996,"date":"2018-03-18T04:22:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T11:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/this-new-cholesterol-drug-might-reduce-risk-of-dying"},"modified":"2018-03-18T04:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T11:22:52","slug":"this-new-cholesterol-drug-might-reduce-risk-of-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/this-new-cholesterol-drug-might-reduce-risk-of-dying","title":{"rendered":"This New Cholesterol Drug Might Reduce Risk of Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-new-cholesterol-drug-might-reduce-risk-of-dying2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Cholesterol drug alirocumab was linked to a 15% lower risk of dying in a new study released Saturday. [<a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cholesterol-drug-alirocumab-shown-reduced-risk-dying\/\">This article<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/about\/\">LongevityFacts<\/a>. Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+BCHartman\">Brady Hartman.<\/a> ]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cholesterol-lowering drug alirocumab was linked to a 15% lower risk of death, and an equivalent reduction of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time a cholesterol-lowering drug has reduced deaths since statins such as Crestor and Lipitor came out decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cholesterol-drug-alirocumab-shown-reduced-risk-dying\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/cholesterol-drug-alirocumab-shown-reduced-risk-dying\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Cholesterol drug alirocumab was linked to a 15% lower risk of dying in a new study released Saturday. [This article first appeared on LongevityFacts. Author: Brady Hartman. ] The cholesterol-lowering drug alirocumab was linked to a 15% lower risk of death, and an equivalent reduction of cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}