This week I refinanced my mortgage at a new, better rate, lowering my monthly expenses with a stroke of the pen.

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But it is also effective in lowering cholesterol and reducing your risk for heart disease, stroke, kidney stones and diabetes, its website states.

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The object was to test whether treating patients early and aggressively with a cholesterol-lowering drug would prevent them from having a second heart attack, having a stroke, returning to the hospital or dying.

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Doctors recommend stopping smoking, limiting alcohol intake, lowering cholesterol and saturated fat intake and increasing physical activity to reduce the risk of stroke.

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