Sentences with phrase «taking statin therapy»

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.

The investigators found that women were less likely to have started taking statin therapy (81.9 percent of women vs. 87.7 percent of men) or to have continued statin therapy (67.0 percent of women versus 71.4 percent of men).

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.

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.

«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.

A systematic review of the cases reported to the FDA determined that approximately half of the memory loss problems occurred within 60 days of starting on statin therapy, although memory problems were reported after taking a statin drug for just 5 days.

Statin therapy is useful, Dr. Kopecky says, but it shouldn't take the place of healthy living.

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.

I am studying Naturopathic Nutritional therapy in Scotland (UK), but it saddens me that a lot of people I come across just dismiss what I tell them about health and continue to take unnecessary drugs, such as statins.