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My mother have high cholesterol, she takes medicine for 3 month, then stop then after 1 month her LDL 200,is not it dangerous to take cholesterol medicine for long time
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It is not dangerous to take cholesterol tablets. But it is dangerous if her LDL cholesterols are high.
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Pls consult physician and restart her medication
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