Jay S. Cohen
Out of all the statins, atorvastatin (Lipitor), simvastatin (Zocor), and lovastatin (Altoprev) have the strongest interaction with grapefruit, and this is likely to be true for other citrus. Grapefruit juice and any grapefruit products should be avoided, as should large quantities of limes or...
Statinsare the most popular class of lipid modifier. One molecule in particular,atorvastatin(Lipitor, Torvast), has the distinction of being the highest-grossing drug of all time, with well over $100 billion in sales since its approval in 1996. Several otherstatinshave been on the market for...
It is one of the best-selling drugs worldwide.13 The other three statins, which are enantiopure and share the unsaturated E-heptenoic acid side chain with identical (3R,5S)-chirality found in fluvastatin, are cerivastatin (launched in 1998 by Bayer), rosuvastatin (launched in 2003 by ...
The truth is that NO woman should ever be given Lipitor or any other statin drug for elevated cholesterol. Dr. Rose says, “There are no statin trials with even the slightest hint of a mortality benefit in women and women should be told so”. (5). In other words,statin drugs don’t...
(TGA). Appalled by the medical community's ignorance of the cognitive side effects of the statin drugs, he begins searching for answers to his traumatic experience. Lipitor(r), Thief of Memory, Statin Drugs and the Misguided War On Cholesterol is the "scary, appealingly written" account of ...
The cholesterol reducing drugs, statins, exhibit anti-tumor effects against cancer stem cells and various cancer cell lines, exert potent additivity or synergy with existing chemotherapeutics in animal models of cancer and may reduce cancer incidence and
Studies assessing aggressive initial dosing of other statins should be conducted instead of trying to extrapolate these data to other drugs in this class. Although the main focus of this review is on the statin therapy and dosing algorithm, it is important to remember the importance of diet ...
Sardella concluded, adding that while the drugs showed similar effects on procedural and mid- to long-term outcomes, “both statins confirmed their beneficial effects compared with the absence of statin pretreatment.”Both audience and panel members sought to understand how statin reloading could lead...
Previous experiments have demonstrated that statins, including atorvastatin (Lipitor), inhibit the growth of a subset of the NCI-60 cancer cell lines, and if one statin inhibited the proliferation of a given cell line, then the other statins also showed similar half maximal inhibitory concentration...