Statins are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the UK, with around seven or eight million adults in the UK taking them. They help lower cholesterol in the blood. Having a high cholesterol level is potentially dangerous as it can cause hardening and narrowing of the arteries, leading...
Taking Statins for Cholesterol Nearly Halves Risk of Arthritis
High cholesterol can harm your heart. But drastically reducing your levels isn’t the answer, either, new research from Israel suggests. In the study, people taking cholesterol-lowering statins who had low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or “bad,” cholesterol levels between 70 and 100 milligrams pe...
People who have had a stroke called an intracerebral hemorrhage who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins may have a lower risk of having another stroke, especially ischemic stroke, compared to people who also had an intracerebral hemorrhage but were not taking statins, according to a new ...
Aim:To describe patterns of community lipid testing and subsequent therapeutic alteration in a cohort of patients taking statins. Method:We conducted a population-based cohort study. Our cohort comprised all people enrolled with a general practice in the Pegasus Health primary care network in Canterbur...
Statins are widely prescribed for the primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. They act by inhibiting the enzyme HMG CoA reductase, which controls synthesis of cholesterol in the liver. Most manufacturers of statins recommend that they are taken at night, on the basis of physiol...
Some widely used medications, including antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), antihistamines and certain heart medicines and statins for lowering cholesterol, can make you far more sensitive to sunlight than you’d usually be. Sun-sensitizing drugs can also aggravate e...
Peggy O'Connor -- who suffered a heart attack after years of battling high cholesterol -- had complained to her doctor about statins she was taking, the drugs that can lower bad cholesterol. "When I started on the statin, I started having muscle spasms," she said. ...
which ferry cholesterol out of artery-clogging plaques to the liver for removal from the body.Specifically,torcetrapib blocks a protein called cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP),which normally transfers the cholesterol from high-density lipoproteins to low density,plaque-promoting ones.Statins,in ...
A couple of weeks ago I had some blood work done at the request of my family physician. Last week I got a message from the doc asking me to come in for a chat about cholesterol. This morning I was pretty certain I’d be leaving her office with a prescription forstatinsof some sort...