Sentences with phrase «consider taking statins»
Under current guidelines, about 50 million people in the United States should consider taking statins to lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.
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It puzzles me that cutting four animals from my diet is considered «extreme,» yet getting open heart surgery or taking a statin drug for the rest of my life is not.
The efficacy and necessity of these drugs has long been debated in the natural health world — mainly questioning whether the absolute benefit of the drug justifies the lifetime prescription or whether the approach of «blocking» cholesterol makes sense given that cholesterol is vital for so many other areas of human health — but for those that do decide to take Lipitor, Crestor or other statins, it's important to consider the drug's other effects on the body.
A 2015 Study examined a group of individuals that were considered «statin intolerant», meaning that they suffered from statin side effects, particularly muscle pains, that made it difficult or unbearable to continue taking the drug.