1.   About half the people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels.

2.   Benefits were found even in patients with normal cholesterol levels who took fluvastatin, sold in the United States under the brand name Lescol.

3.   Half of all heart attack patients have normal cholesterol levels.

4.   The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. drug Pravachol to prevent strokes and second heart attacks in patients with normal cholesterol levels.