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States Cut Some Red Tape in Prescriptions

Stateline: Cameron Credle was barely more than a toddler when he was diagnosed with abnormally high cholesterol. And over the years, despite being an avid runner and bicyclist and a careful eater, Credle has seen his numbers climb high into the 400s. Even the cholesterol medications he was taking didn’t get him into the healthy range of under 200.

So, Credle, now 30 and a woodworker in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was relieved to learn a couple of years ago about a new class of approved cholesterol drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors that were proving highly effective for people like him whose lifelong high cholesterol was determined by genetics rather than lifestyle — a condition known as familia hypercholesterolemia.

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