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Led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, supported by The University of Manchester and funded by the British Heart Foundation, the study by Anthony Matthews and colleagues is the first ...

I was born into a rural farming family in northern Japan, near Akita, where I lived for 17 years with my extended family, including grandparents, parents, three brothers and two sisters.

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There remains controversy in the scientific community about the benefit of statins in women, because women have been less studied than men.