This supplement in particular requires some oversight by a health-care professional because it contains the same active compound as one of the popular cholesterol-lowering statin medications.

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Glaxo plans to bring the best one into final-stage trials in thousands of patients within a year, aiming to show that adding the compound to existing regimens can prevent far more heart attacks than cholesterol-lowering drugs alone.

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