1·Meanwhile, other patients who may benefit from statins may not get the drugs, he says.
与此同时，其他需要他汀类药物的病人可能得不到这些药物。
2·They used survey results from around 20 years ago, when statins weren't so widely used, to figure out how many Americans would fit into various categories of heart risk.
他们使用了约20年前的调查结果，那时他汀类药物还没有得到广泛应用，以找出有多少美国人会适应各类心脏病的风险。
3·But other studies have found no significant link between statins and memory problems.
但还有一些研究表明他汀类药物和记忆问题无显著关系。
4·Such a test could feed into doctor's advice for patients on improving lifetstyle and lead to better prescribing of anti-cholesterol drugs, such as statins.
这样的测验将为医生提供依据，以便给病人提高生活质量的建议和更好的用降低胆固醇药，如他汀类药物。
5·If a similar drug could be found to be effective in humans, then the researchers believe it would need to be prescribed in a similar way to statins.
研究人员相信，如果可以找到类似的对于人类有用的药物，那么它应该与他汀类药物类似。
1·Statins work by blocking an enzyme in the liver that produces cholesterol, but they may also have other effects that help reduce heart risk.
他汀类药物通过阻断肝脏中产生胆固醇的酶从而达到降血脂效果，但他们也可能有其他途径来降低心脏病风险。
2·Statins work by lowering the production of cholesterol by the liver, and are most effective at reducing low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol.
他汀类药物通过降低肝脏产生的胆固醇而发挥作用，并且在降低低密度脂蛋白或LDL（所谓的坏胆固醇）方面最为有效。