[HIGHLIGHTS] Four deaths due to cholesterol-lowering drugs: Munich heart professor clarifies

Four deaths due to cholesterol-lowering drugs: Munich heart professor clarifies. In Japan, at least 4 deaths and over 100 hospitalizations have been linked to Red Rice supplements.

The EU has already restricted the use of food supplements or monacolins containing red yeast rice. “I would strongly advise against foods based on red yeast Rice,” says the cardiologist and medical director of the Isar Heart Center in Munich’s Isar Clinic, Professor Dr. Alexander Leber.