Sentences with phrase «received statin»

I have struggled with cholesterol all my life and my body didn't receive the statin drugs too well so I was led to seek out alternative methods.

One, in which Dr. Weiss was the senior author, highlighted the extended survival of metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients who received statins.

The children, 8 - to 18 - years - old, continued to receive statins and were evaluated after 10 years.

Researchers reported that at age 30, coronary heart disease survival was 100 percent in the group of young adults who received statins from childhood and 93 percent in the affected parents.

But our findings suggest that all CAD patients should receive statins to reduce their risk of future cardiovascular events.»

Depression 3 and 9 months after discharge is less common in cardiac patients who are receiving statins at discharge

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Six lipid - lowering trials randomized 4,449 patients, who previously had a heart attack or stroke or had extremely high baseline cholesterol levels and were on statin therapy, to receive either bococizumab (150 mg subcutaneously every 2 weeks) or placebo to determine the effects on LDL levels.

Of those told their results, around 57 per cent decided to start taking statins again within the next three months, compared with only a third of those who received generic recommendations.

They were less likely to undergo percutaneous coronary intervention or receive P2Y12 blockers or statins, and stayed in hospital longer.

Children with inherited high levels of cholesterol who receive cholesterol - lowering statins in their early years have a lower risk of coronary heart disease than their affected parents, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2013.

All patients also received standard medical therapy throughout the trial, which in a vast majority of cases included treatment with statins or other cholesterol - lowering drugs.

When compared to family medicine physicians that did not receive the intervention, internal medicine physicians had a significant increase in generic prescribing rates of 5.4 percentage points for all medications, 10.5 percentage points for beta - blockers, and 4.0 percentage points for statins.

Less than half of women who filled a statin prescription following a heart attack received a high - intensity statin — indicating they continue to be less likely than men to be prescribed this lifesaving treatment, according...

Almost 20 percent had received at least one statin prescription.

The patients in Dr. Becker's study received a dose of monacolin K roughly five times smaller than the typical lovastatin prescription, yet the reduction in their LDL levels was comparable to the average drop patients see on a statin.

If you do receive a coronary artery disease diagnosis, your doctor may want to start you on statins, insert a stent into one of the arteries, or schedule you for bypass surgery.

It was later discovered that 8 out of the 9 doctors on the panel had received financial support from drug companies that sell cholesterol - lowering drugs such as statins.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The National Cholesterol Education Program, The American Heart Association and many academic centers are led and influenced by physicians who receive direct or indirect benefit from the makers of statin drugs.

Diabetics receive no health benefit from adding a drug to raise HDL «good» cholesterol levels if they're already taking a statin to lower their LDL cholesterol levels