Sentences with phrase «in taking statin»

POLYNEUROPATHY: Tingling and pain in the hands and feet as well as difficulty walking occur frequently in those taking statins, conditions often blamed on «old age» rather than on the drug.

Not exact matches

The findings suggest that fenofibrate therapy may be beneficial in the way the researchers hoped: by reducing cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who take statins but still have especially high triglycerides levels and low HDL cholesterol levels.

An estimated 20 million Americans take statins, making these cholesterol - lowering drugs the most widely prescribed class in the world.

When patients were unaware they were taking statins there was no reported increase in muscle - related symptoms.

In that calculation, the number of people who would avoid a cardiovascular event is not 5 percent, as the review in Lancet estimated, but somewhere between 1 and 2 percent — which means only 100 or at most 200 of every 10,000 healthy people taking a statin would benefiIn that calculation, the number of people who would avoid a cardiovascular event is not 5 percent, as the review in Lancet estimated, but somewhere between 1 and 2 percent — which means only 100 or at most 200 of every 10,000 healthy people taking a statin would benefiin Lancet estimated, but somewhere between 1 and 2 percent — which means only 100 or at most 200 of every 10,000 healthy people taking a statin would benefit.

Research has shown women have poorer adherence to taking their statin medication to treat high cholesterol, perhaps due to somewhat dissimilar pharmacological properties in a woman's body than a man's.

In one routine - care study, reported in 2013 in Annals of Internal Medicine, 8 percent of patients stopped taking statins because of side effectIn one routine - care study, reported in 2013 in Annals of Internal Medicine, 8 percent of patients stopped taking statins because of side effectin 2013 in Annals of Internal Medicine, 8 percent of patients stopped taking statins because of side effectin Annals of Internal Medicine, 8 percent of patients stopped taking statins because of side effects.

«We found that almost 50 per cent of women in their late seventies and eighties in the study took statins, and five per cent were diagnosed with new - onset diabetes,» Dr Jones said.

Thus, the strengths of Gupta and colleagues» study lie in the fact that these were the same patients, no run - in period existed to exclude patients intolerant to therapy, and few patients had previously taken any statins.

«Statins: No increase in muscle - related side effects in patients who are unaware they are taking the drug, analysis finds.»

The trial was designed to compare outcomes — such as cardiovascular - related death and heart attack — in patients taking a statin plus ezetimibe versus patients taking a statin plus placebo.

A link between diabetes and statins wasn't discovered until a 2008 analysis of almost 18,000 people published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that 216 people taking a placebo developed type 2 diabetes while 270 taking a statin did.

Everyone over 50 should take statins to lower their cholesterol, an editorial argued last week in The Lancet.

My doctor has been asking me to take a statin,» Endo tells us in an e-mail.

In other words, approximately 130 people need to take statins for a year to prevent just one unwanted health outcome, and 500 people have to take them to prevent a single death.

Guidelines released in 2013 by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology say that people between the ages of 40 and 75 should take a statin if their risk of cardiovascular disease is 7.5 percent or higher over the next 10 years.

Those studies, including their recent paper published in the medical journal Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, which demonstrated that the benefits of taking statins have been exaggerated and are misleading.

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

Deepak Voora of Duke University, North Carolina, and his colleagues have been researching a gene associated with muscle pain in people taking statins.

According to Keskin, none of the subjects took medications other than insulin, including cholesterol - lowering statins, which have led to reports of confusion and forgetfulness in some users.

Your doctor may advise you to take a statin if your cholesterol is slightly elevated, but he or she probably will not tell you that out of 35 people taking the drug for four years, only one person will actually benefit from it in terms of avoiding a coronary event or another bad outcome.

Half the statins used worldwide are used in the United States, and that was before the 2001 and 2004 updates of the National Cholesterol Education Program recommended more than tripling the number of Americans taking statin therapy.

He now takes statins, cholesterol - lowering drugs that are the top - selling medications in the United States, because he has heard from friends in the pharmaceutical industry that statins could prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.

«This policy allowed us to see whether there was any difference in the risk of Parkinson's in people who stopped taking statins compared to the ones who kept taking them,» said study author Jou - Wei Lin, MD, PhD, of National Taiwan University in Taipei.

The current study involved 43,810 people in Taiwan who were taking statins and did not have Parkinson's disease.

Taking that observation one step further, the researchers then asked whether cholesterol - lowering statin drugs, which other reports had shown could dramatically reduce the risk of a heart attack in middle - aged people, benefit the very old (see «Greasing Aging's Downward Slide»).

Golomb says one reason many doctors overlook risks and believe statins to be safe is that most controlled studies of statins wind up excluding people who originally begin to participate in a study but stop taking the drug because they experience problems from it; these test participants are then dropped from the study as «noncompliant.»

In a database study of nearly 26,000 beneficiaries of Tricare, the military health system, those taking statin drugs to control their cholesterol were 87 percent more likely to develop diabetes.

«No patient should stop taking their statins based on our study, since statin therapy is a cornerstone in treatment of cardiovascular diseases and has been clearly shown to lower mortality and disease progression,» he says.

It would also mean that roughly 6 million new patients would be eligible to take a statin — in this case, Crestor (rosuvastatin).

According to a recent editorial in JAMA Cardiology, a disproportionate number of young patients with high LDL cholesterol — 50 % — do not take their prescribed statins.

Men who take statins or other medications to lower their cholesterol are also likely to see an improvement in their sexual function, according to a 2014 study by researchers at Rutgers University's Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Even worse, diabetes has been reported in surprisingly high numbers of patients taking statins — the very condition which propels millions of Americans toward circulatory problems, heart attacks and strokes!

One in five patients was taking a statin, and those individuals had a 21 percent lower risk of dying from any cause, and a 45 percent reduced risk of dying from lung - related issues, the researchers found.

And only 2 of the 29 patients who took red yeast rice in the study developed myalgia — a far smaller percentage than could have been expected had they tried another statin.

«For some people, especially if they've had muscle aching, taking red yeast rice and making lifestyle changes can work as well as a statin,» says lead study author David Becker, MD, a cardiologist in private practice at Chestnut Hill Cardiology in Pennsylvania.

For those of us with heart disease requiring cardiac bypass surgery (CABG), The New York Times advises we all take statins drugs, since studies show 50 % reduction in mortality for those taking statin drugs after CABG.

You don't want to be sacrificing cholesterol or taking — of course this depends on your health history — but there's a risk of depression in people who are taking statin drugs, cholesterol - lowering drugs that are lowing our cholesterol in the body because how are we making our hormones if we don't have enough cholesterol.

Like other drugs, however, statins have potentially serious side effects, and there are instances in which they should not be taken.

Taking a statin is basically like turning off the «check engine» light when it comes on in your car rather than looking under the hood to determine the problem.

Supplementation of CoQ10 is therefore critical in anyone who is taking statins.

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.

This issue is particularly important as currently one in four Americans over 45 take statins, but there is a MAJOR push to start prescribing them to younger individuals under the pretext of «prevention.

The «number needed to harm» for intensive - dose statin therapy was 498 for new - onset diabetes - that's the number of people who need to take the drug in order for one person to develop diabetes.

In fact, elevated insulin levels lead to heart disease, which, ironically, is the primary reason for taking a statin drug in the first placIn fact, elevated insulin levels lead to heart disease, which, ironically, is the primary reason for taking a statin drug in the first placin the first place!

May be important for people taking cholesterol - lowering statin drugs, which can inhibit CoQ10 production in the body

• Reduced cholesterol levels - An animal study published in the Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition found that rats given krill oil supplements for six weeks reduced their cholesterol levels by 33 percent.18 In a separate study, 19 this time conducted on patients taking statins, taking krill oil along with statins and a low - fat diet reduced cholesterol levels by 20 percenin the Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition found that rats given krill oil supplements for six weeks reduced their cholesterol levels by 33 percent.18 In a separate study, 19 this time conducted on patients taking statins, taking krill oil along with statins and a low - fat diet reduced cholesterol levels by 20 percenIn a separate study, 19 this time conducted on patients taking statins, taking krill oil along with statins and a low - fat diet reduced cholesterol levels by 20 percent.

Additionally, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Prostate, men who take statin drugs of any kind are significantly more prone to developing prostate cancer compared to other men.

It's in the mid 300's now and my Dr wants me to go on statin drugs of which I'm very resistant, I don't feel comfortable taking drugs.

Research shows that taking a specific product containing eicosapentaenoic acid as ethyl eicosapentaenoic acid (Vascepa by Amarin) by mouth along with dieting and cholesterol - lowering drugs called «statins» reduces levels of triglycerides in people with very high levels.