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Telomere Length May Predict Heart Disease Risk

Size does matter: Men with short telomeres -- strips of DNA at the end of chromosomes -- may have a higher risk of developing coronary heart disease. And those same men may benefit the most from treatment with cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, a new British study found.

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