The average retail prescription price of common cholesterol-lowering drugs, for example, is $100 a month, or $1,200 a year.
Patients may also be asked to take other medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs and aspirin.
But if your cardiovascular risk is high, you may also need to take a cholesterol-lowering drug.
On the other hand, some studies suggest that cholesterol-lowering drugs can cause cancer.
The study's conclusions were based on a look at about 4,500 people taking a cholesterol-lowering drug.
This included, for nearly a third of the control group, cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The same applies to cholesterol-lowering drugs, which are not only very expensive but can have serious side effects.
The average participant lost 25 pounds, but no cholesterol-lowering drugs were taken.
Private industry has not stepped forward, as it did in the case of cholesterol-lowering drugs, for example.
Patients often have to take more than one cholesterol-lowering drug to achieve those targets.