Sentences with phrase «about statin»

And, how about statin drugs which lower cholesterol?

And according to revised cholesterol guidelines released last year, in cases where there's uncertainty about statin treatment, CRP level is one of several factors that doctors should consider in making the decision.

Patients should be skeptical about the guidelines, and have a meaningful dialogue with their doctors about statins, including what the evidence does and does not show, before deciding what is best for them.»

I told both my cardiologist and internist that I was concerned about statins because I am almost totally vegan.

Are you familiar though with the research about statins being anti-fungals actually as well and how that may be part of the mechanism of action?

Just as the debate about statins is not particularly pointed, we are getting to know the risk reward ratio, and as we do, its rather clear that mass prescription is not sensible.

Not exact matches

Eric Topol speaks with Sekar Kathiresan about cardiovascular genomics, why «DNA isn't destiny,» and why we still have heart attacks in spite of statins.

Insisted dr test thyroid because he and I seriously disagree about me taking statins.

Today, about one out of every four Americans over the age of 55 is taking a statin drug.

New recommendations to expand statin use will save lives but also raise questions about aggressively treating the healthy

THE STATIN UMBRELLA After decades of study, a big question remains about the safety of statins: What are the risks for people who have a chance of benefit but haven't yet had a heart attack or stroke?

The statin skeptics worry that too little is understood about unintended consequences, especially for a drug taken for years on end by nearly one - quarter of adults past middle age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's most recent data.

People joked about dumping statins into the water supply.

«No association between «bad cholesterol» and elderly deaths: Systematic review of studies of over 68,000 elderly people also raises questions about the benefits of statin drug treatments.»

Under current guidelines, about 50 million people in the United States should consider taking statins to lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.

Given that 12.4 percent of American adults — or about 30 million people — have LDL levels above 160 mg / dl, Robinson says the findings show statins save tens of thousands of lives annually.

They know about cholesterol because everyone is pushing their statin.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

The authors and editorialist express grave concerns that there will be many needless premature deaths as well as preventable heart attacks and strokes if patients who would clearly benefit from statins are not prescribed the drug, refuse to take the drug, or stop using the drug because of ill - advised adverse publicity about benefits and risks, which may include misplaced concerns about the possible but unproven small risk of diabetes.

In an accompanying editorial, Daniel C. DeSimone, MD, of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Christopher V. DeSimone, MD, PhD, of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, expand on the importance of the study's findings and provide additional insights with more details about S. aureus infections and statin pharmacology, and put these findings into clinical context.

Because statins have been long used to treat hyperlipidemia and heart disease in adults, there already exists exhaustive information about their appropriate dose and dosage.

Abramson, who with a colleague published his findings in the British medical journal The Lancet, says that even when statins are used for men at the highest risk, «you have to treat about 238 men for one year to prevent one heart attack.»

Golomb says that Graveline's episodes of TGA, and other cases like his, raise questions about the ways statins can affect memory.

About three - quarters of the statin prescriptions in Mansi's data were for simvastatin, sold as Zocor.

Statins and angiogenesis: Is it about connections?

A fact sheet about results from animal research and ongoing observational studies of people taking statins that suggest that these drugs may lower the risk of certain cancers, including colorectal and skin cancers.

«Although it is known that statins do increase the risk of diabetes, the best available evidence about the size of this excess risk comes from randomised trials, which have suggested a much smaller risk than was found in this study.

There is also another positive in that doctors are more regularly checking for risk of diabetes in those about to start statins and, in this way, we are picking up more people at elevated diabetes risk who can gain considerably from more targeted lifestyle interventions to mitigate such risks.»

Presenting results as hazard ratios or relative risks always makes effects look large — «a 30 per cent heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes» sounds like a big effect but based on figure 2 it looks like statins may be associated with an increase in the annual rate of new diabetes from about 6 per 100 people to approximately 8 per 100 people over a 10 year period.

«Just because you take a statin doesn't mean you can forget about diet and exercise.

In a new review of the evidence on statins» effectiveness, researchers led by Rory Collins, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Oxford, report in the Lancet that concerns about the side effects of statins may be overblown, and that appreciation of the drugs» benefits are under recognized.

One might wonder about the outcome of an NIH funded study comparing the anti-inflammatory effects of statin drugs to a botanical product like Zyflamend in such diverse conditions such as arthritis, atherosclerosis, and cancer, as well as mortality after bypass graft surgery.

About 10 % of statin users get aches and pains, says William W. O'Neill, MD, a cardiologist and medical director of Henry Ford Health System's Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

If you are taking a statin, tell your doctor immediately if you become pregnant or are thinking about having a baby.

If you are pregnant or thinking about having a baby, you should not take statins.

It's suggested I go on statins, it's clear I'm in the group that does seem to benefit (young, male) but I don't want to, but I don't know how much to worry about these readings?

My doctor got all excited and prescribed me double statins (40 mg of simvistatin) and my cholesterol dropped about a 100 points and declared me out of the danger zone.

Don't want to go on statins, was on them and had a severe gut reaction which lasted about 8 months to get balanced again.

I worry about her taking it because of cognitive side effects from statins and I wonder if these supplements may be exacerbating her cognitive decline?

I've long maintained that statins are one of the most unnecessary drugs there is, and I'm not about to change my mind anytime soon.

The most frequently reported consequence is fatigue, and about 9 percent of patients report statin - related pain.

If you or anyone you care about is currently taking statins, or if you just want to learn more about cholesterol and the controversy that is revolving currently around statin drugs, please read the book The Cholesterol Myths.

Please get anyone you love or care about off the statin drugs.

As a perfectly absurd example of how doctors have been wrongly influenced by the drug companies... about 8 years ago, I was a perfectly healthy 28 year old, in great shape, exercising daily, eating a balanced healthy diet full of antioxidants and quality nutrition, no smoking, and with no real risk factors for heart disease, and just because my cholesterol level has been consistently measured over 200 for my entire life, my doctor recommended I consider using a cholesterol lowering statin drug.

The worsening markers HDL and TG in the statin panels and fingering genetics as root cause bugged me; so I started learning about macronutrients and role of insulin.

On 12/20/11 I stopped taking statin and ate LCHF (< 50 grams carb per day mostly from green vegs and abstained carb - rich food, about 50 grams protein, lots of mon - unsaturated fat).

I really loved the bacon and got the results you see below in March — very early in the diet change and had stopped statins completely for about 2 weeks before the test.

The Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven't Been Told About Popular Cholesterol - Lowering Medicines

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Now, my question: Do you know about trustfull references that discuss about the reduced efficacy of angioplasties, stents, bypass surgery and statin drugs on reducing the incidence of myocardial infarctions and death?