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Even when diabetics take pills to lower their bad cholesterol, if they still have high levels of a blood marker called hsCRP, they’re still at high risk for heart attacks and strokes — meaning inflammation is still hurting them.
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This study doesn’t test a new treatment, but it pulls together many other studies that show even when diabetics take all the right meds for cholesterol, their heart risk stays high because of body-wide inflammation—which this paper says is a major reason why.
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