Only a few types of side effect reported from use of statins are genuinely due to the drug itself, as almost all side effects were reported just as often with a placebo, a systematic review of randomised controlled trials has concluded.1The findings are important, as the NHS in England is...
NHS recommendations state millions of people who have not suffered a heart attack or stroke should take statins as a preventative measure. However, experts writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) saidthe drugs could do more harm than good, and offer a tiny benefit for those people at low...
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Flowchart of Selection of the Cohorts View LargeDownload NHS indicates National Health System. Figure 2. Association of Discontinuing Statin Therapy With Risk of Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular Outcomes, All-Cause Mortality, and Admission in Emergency Department View LargeDownload Estimates from ...
The costs of statin and ezetimibe treatments (January 2019) were obtained from the National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC) reports29 (US) and NHS Electronic Drug Tariff30 (UK) (Supplementary Table S2). Patients’ health-related QoL was derived from responses to the EuroQoL 5-dimensions ...
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That's five million more patients for the NHS to keep an eye on, five million more people who, despite the fact many will be in good health, have been well and truly 'medicalised' and face the prospect of spending the rest of their lives on daily medication. In making its recommend...
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Niacin is a B vitamin found in certain foods or in supplements. It can be prescribed in high doses to lower high cholesterol. Although it can help, it’s not a popular statin alternative nor prescribed often due to side effects such as liver damage when used for a long time. ...
Byline: Jenny Hope Medical CorrespondentMILLIONS more patients will be offered statins to cut heart attacks and strokes under new NHS guidelines.Doctors used to prescribe the drugs only to those who had a 30 per cent or greater risk of suffering a heart attack within a decade.This was lowered...