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IMPROVE-IT shows how useful ezetimibe can be
Prof Ian Graham, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, TCD Combining a non-statin cholesterol-lowering drug to a statin can reduce cardiovascular events in high-risk patients, demonstrates the...
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Overall risk profiles are assessed
Statins result in large reductions in cholesterol and they prevent heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular mortality. Pic: Getty Images The benefits of statin therapy accrue quickly and there are...
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Cholesterol drugs linked with 30% lower stroke risk
Use of cholesterol-lowering drugs is associated with a one-third lower risk of stroke in older adults without previous disease, finds a study published in The BMJ. In high income countries, a growing...
View ArticleSystemic fusidic acid and interaction with statins – Reminder of risk of...
HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, collectively known as ’statins’, are a class of medicines authorised in Ireland as an adjunct to diet for the treatment of hypercholesterolaemia, when the response to diet...
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No additional benefits to reducing cholesterol
Pic: Getty Images Using statins to reduce LDL cholesterol levels to very low targets for all patients with pre-existing heart disease appears to have no additional benefits, research has found. The...
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Benefits of statins repeatedly underestimated
Pic: Getty Images A major review of the available evidence on the safety and efficacy of statin therapy, published in The Lancet, warns that the benefits of statin therapy have been underestimated and...
View ArticleSome stroke survivors disregard GPs’ advice on medications
A study of an online stroke forum has found that some stroke survivors say they are disregarding GPs’ advice on secondary prevention medications, such as statins, with some patients stopping their...
View ArticleNo increased side-effects for patients unaware they were on statins
Muscle-related symptoms are less commonly reported when patients and their doctors are unaware that statin therapy is being used, compared to when they are aware, according to a new study in The...
View ArticleStatin concerns stop stroke survivors taking meds
Negative media coverage of the side-effects associated with taking statins, and patients’ own experiences of taking the drugs, are among the reasons cited by stroke survivors and their carers for...
View ArticleUse of statins ‘may reduce risk of lethal prostate cancer’
Previous studies show statins could slow down the growth of different types of cancers This story continues at Use of statins ‘may reduce risk of lethal prostate cancer’ Or just read more coverage at...
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