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HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): The recommendations by the nation's leading heart organizations are the first new cholesterol guidelines released since 2004.
For decades, doctors have prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins to their patients based on their laboratory numbers. But the new recommendations focus on risk factors, including whether individuals have diabetes or heart disease, or if they have a level of so-called bad cholesterol known as LDL. That's 190 or higher.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and a professor of medicine at the Yale School of Medicine who has long studied this issue.
So, Dr. Krumholz, how significant are these new guidelines?
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