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Element found in a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

astatine

'element' is the definition.
(I know that astatine is a type of element)

'a cholesterol-reducing drug and vitamin' is the wordplay.
'cholesterol-reducing drug' becomes 'statin' (I've seen this before).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'vitamin' becomes 'E' (E is an example).
'a'+'statin'+'e'='ASTATINE'

'found in' is the link.

(Other definitions for astatine that I've seen before include "Radioactive element" , "Chemical element At" , "Rare element" , "radioactive material" , "Atomic number 85" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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