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Treating High Cholesterol Could Become A One-And-Done Treatment [Forbes]

Beam Therapeutics Inc. (BEAM) 
Company Research Source: Forbes
Since their introduction in the 1980s, statins have been a gamechanger in lowering the risk of heart attacks and strokes for millions of people with high cholesterol. They work by blocking a liver enzyme that makes LDL cholesterol, the so-called “bad” cholesterol. This in turn reduces the buildup of plaque in arteries. It's no exaggeration to say that statins revolutionized the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the developed world. That said, statins do have some drawbacks: They need to be taken every day, which requires patients to remember and comply with the regimen. They are not curative, and they can come with troublesome side effects, like muscle aches and liver enzyme changes. But what if there was a one-time treatment for patients with high cholesterol that safely tweaked their underlying biology and permanently lowered their heart attack risk? Now, some forty years after the introduction of statins, we may be on the brin Show less Read more
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