The article suggests that elderly patients with dementia and memory difficulties should be given drugs for cardiovascular disease to help slow their cognitive decline. During the Primary Care 2007 conference in Birmingham, England physician Patrick Brooke advised ...
Statins: A Case for Drug Withdrawal in Patients With Dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2010; 58 (6): 1214-1216.Padala KP, Padala PR, Potter JF. Statins: a case for drug with- drawal in patients with dementia [Letter]. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2010;58: 1214-6. [PMID: ...
Statins and Dementia When statins started becoming popular, rumors began that people who took them were more likely to getAlzheimer’s disease. Several studies done over the past 2 decades didn’t find this. In fact, they proved the opposite. ...
evidence has not conclusively demonstrated whether the drugs are beneficial, harmful, or have no effect on dementia risk. A recentconference presentationat the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Annual Meeting detailed the use of PET scans to identify differences in brain metabolism betwe...
Define Statins. Statins synonyms, Statins pronunciation, Statins translation, English dictionary definition of Statins. n. Any of a class of lipid-lowering drugs that reduce serum cholesterol levels by inhibiting a key enzyme involved in the biosynthesis
We investigated whether pre-treatment with statins is associated with surrogate markers of amyloid and hypertensive angiopathies in patients who need to start long-term oral anticoagulation therapy. A prospective multicenter study of patients naive for oral anticoagulants, who had an acute cardioembolic ...
Incidence of musculoskeletal and neoplastic diseases in patients on statin therapy: results of a retrospective cohort analysis. Am J Med Sci. 2013;345(5):343-348.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 11. Baker JF, Walsh P, Mulhall KJ. Statins: a potential role in the management of osteoarthritis?
In an observational cohort study, researchers from the Nudge Unit, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, found that patients who had the first appointments of the day were most likely to have statins prescribed for them, and that this likelihood decreased as the day went on. ...
Randomised trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the scandinavian simvastatin survival study (4S). Lancet. 1994;344:1383–9. Taylor F, Huffman MD, Macedo AF, Moore TH, Burke M, Davey Smith G, Ward K, Ebrahim S. Statins for the primary prevention of ca...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — In a large retrospective cohort of patients who underwent noncardiac surgery, those who received perioperative statins were less likely to die within 30 days or have surgery-related complications than their peers[1]. The risk reduction was greatest in patients who were ...