Sentences with phrase «statin drug study»

This benefit is better than any Statin Drug study.

This exceeds any of the Statin Drug studies.

Firstly, none of the Statin Drug studies has ever shown a mortality benefit for women.

Not exact matches

A 2005 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming almonds as part of a heart - healthy diet can be just as effective at lowering LDL «bad» cholesterol levels as first generation statin drugs.

You might have also noticed that Statin Drugs have come under a negative light in some studies.

A new study shows that the drug fenofibrate might reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes who have high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol, despite being treated with statins.

A study concludes that including actual statin drugs with high - fat restaurant meals is a justifiable public health effort.

«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.»

Lipids are integral to the central nervous system, and as studies of statins and diabetes drugs have shown, dropping levels of some lipids can have deleterious cognitive effects.

Dr. Criner said that despite the clinical trial's finding that the statin drug did not help with COPD flare - ups, information gleaned from this study should help inform other research into the inflammatory nature of COPD.

The study also analysed the association of pancreatitis with the use of cholesterol - lowering drugs, statins, as gallstones often contain crystallised cholesterol.

The study rigorously tested the hypothesis that statin drugs may be beneficial to persons with COPD because of the drugs» purported anti-inflammatory effect.

Darshak Sanghavi, chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, notes that although the FDA has approved some statins for use in children with a genetic problem leading to high cholesterol, there are no studies on the drugs» long - term side effects in children.

Previous studies on the relationship between cholesterol drugs called statins and the risk of Parkinson's disease have had inconsistent results.

Intriguingly, the study also found that drugs called statins, which are better known for their cholesterol - lowering properties, appeared to alleviate the effects of telomere damage — and may even have protected telomeres against degradation.

Statins are among the most widely used drugs for prevention of cardiovascular disease, but there have been some studies that suggest a link to an antimicrobial effect against S. aureus.

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.»

Mansi stresses that the study doesn't definitively show that statins cause diabetes, nor does it mean people should stop using the drugs, which are widely prescribed to help people lower their cardiac risk factors.

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.

A famous Danish study of neuropathy as a side effect to statin use concluded that an individual who is a long - term user of statin drugs has anywhere from 4 to 14 times greater risk of developing peripheral neuropathy than a person who does not take statin drugs.

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.

• Because few trials have been performed with nonstatin cholesterol - lowering drugs in the statin era, and those that have been performed were unable to demonstrate significant additional ASCVD event reductions in the RCT populations studied, there was less evidence to support the use of nonstatin drugs for ASCVD prevention.

Taking statin drugs may lower a person's levels of CoQ10, and some studies have shown that taking this supplement might improve some of the side effects of statin drugs, mainly muscle weakness that some patients experience.

Roughly half of the patients who experience muscle pain after starting a statin eventually begin to feel better as their bodies become accustomed to the drug, says Dr. Phillips, and that could have occurred in the study participants.

Statin intolerance is a known but rare adverse effect of the drugs; early studies found that some people taking them developed muscle weakness that could develop into severe degeneration of muscle tissue that then damages the kidneys and other organs.

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.

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.

The two studies on this statin drug benefit for cardiac bypass by Curtis and Barakat refer to the anti-inflammatory «pleiotropic effects» of statin drugs.

Lovastatin (Mevacor), mevinolin (red yeast rice) and mevastatin (not in use) have all been shown to interfere with the functioning of important N - glycosylated proteins.42 There are no studies to date examining the effect of statin drugs on vitamin D - binding protein.43

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, C - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, c - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

(17) This is disputed by Uffe Ravnskov who feels that the difference is significant, and points to rodent studies showing statin drugs cause cancer in animals.

So if the studies have not conclusively shown that consuming saturated fat or cholesterol cause heart disease, why do so many doctors, scientists, and institutions continue to recommend low - fat, low - cholesterol diets and prescribe statins (cholesterol lowering drugs)?

The fact that statin drugs cause side effects is well established - there are now 900 studies proving their adverse effects, which run the gamut from muscle problems to diabetes, to birth defects and increased cancer risk.

A new study finds the chemical war against cholesterol using statin drugs was justified through statistical deception and the cover up of over 300 adverse health effects documented in the biomedical literature.

But Dr. Agatston, you may not be aware that studies around the world have shown that people on a high fiber vegetarian diets can reduce their cholesterol almost as much as people on statin drugs.

Quote:» No studies have shown statin cholesterol - lowering drugs to be effective for women at any age, nor for men 69 years of age or older, who do not already have heart disease or diabetes.

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.

Beatrice Golomb is an M.D. Ph.D. who heads up the UCSD Statin Study group, a research team who are actively investigating the risk - benefit balance of statin Statin Study group, a research team who are actively investigating the risk - benefit balance of statin statin drugs.

The section on Alzheimer's is particularly compelling, and it points out the pitfalls in relying on previous studies done by the statin industry, where often those who have memory problems as side - effects of the statin drugs are excluded from the study, so that the results end up inappropriately biased in favor of statins.

The 2011 Sprint 8 study surprised researchers when they discovered that the results of the eight - week exercise protocol not only bettered the results of injecting growth hormone, but it also came very close to equaling the results of cholesterol - lowering statin drugs for likely statin users in the study.

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.

And a second study by the same research team, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and found that, as part of the same heart healthy eating plan, almonds can reduce C - reactive protein, a marker of artery - damaging inflammation, as much as statin drugs.

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which found that, as part of a diet rich in heart healthy foods such as soy, viscous fiber and plant sterols, almonds can reduce cholesterol levels as much as first generation statin drugs.

On Sunday February 15, 2015, the Sunday Express in the UK published a headline story stating that Oxford professor Dr. Rory Collins, whose research had been used to support putting millions of patients on statin drugs, was reassessing the data behind those studies for possible drug side effects.

Moreover, recent studies have shown statin drugs to cause cancer in humans and laboratory animals.

I strongly suspect that this is because statins do not influence particle size, and many if not most medical «studies» are funded by the pharmaceutical industry to sell drugs.

High doses of the cholesterol - lowering drugs known as statins may increase the risk of diabetes, a new study says.

To help neutralize the heart - disease dangers that fatty food poses, fast - food restaurants could provide customers with free statins, which are drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol levels, according to a study by researchers at Imperial College London published this week.

One study that compared the drug Lipitor and fish oil found that fish oil was more effective than the statin drug Lipitor in positively affecting the good cholesterol (HDL), cholesterol in obese and insulin - hesitant men.