Sentences with phrase «taking statins because»

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

Great articles, I fully agree with what you've written but wonder what to advise people who are terrified after a strike and take statins because they feel the plaques need to be stabilized.

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I don't plan to ever take statin drugs because there is a chance of liver damage

Insisted dr test thyroid because he and I seriously disagree about me taking statins.

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.

The authors and editorialist express grave concerns that there will be many needless premature deaths as well as preventable heart attacks and strokes if patients who would clearly benefit from statins are not prescribed the drug, refuse to take the drug, or stop using the drug because of ill - advised adverse publicity about benefits and risks, which may include misplaced concerns about the possible but unproven small risk of diabetes.

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.»

Physicians tell patients to take their statins at bedtime because the related liver enzymes are more active during sleep.

«Just because you take a statin doesn't mean you can forget about diet and exercise.

By Ray Hainer MONDAY, June 15, 2009 (Health.com)-- A statin can be a lifesaver if you're at risk of heart disease, but some people who take the cholesterol - lowering drugs — up to 20 %, by some estimates — have to stop because of muscle pain, the most common side effect.

A statin can be a lifesaver if you're at risk of heart disease, but some people who take the cholesterol - lowering drugs — up to 20 %, by some estimates — have to stop because of muscle pain, the most common side effect.

And not only that, a lot of the men that come into my office that are on statin drugs or cholesterol - lowering drug, they're also taking Viagra because, what I've said before, cholesterol drives healthy hormones.

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.

Ironically, this means that statins, which many people take because they want to protect their heart, are actually quite likely to increase their risk of dying from heart disease.

And Statin drugs is something that I went on 10 years ago, and didn't take «em very long because of the side effects, and that something my wife and I wouldn't, we refuse to put him on just because of the side effects and just the complications that can come from that.

I worry about her taking it because of cognitive side effects from statins and I wonder if these supplements may be exacerbating her cognitive decline?

Within 3 weeks of the above changes, and eating smaller, more frequent meals, I no longer had elevated blood sugar and my cholesterol, though not as low as I would like, dropped more than it ever did taking statins, which I stopped because of the side effects.

That these drugs have proliferated the market the way they have is a testimony to the power of marketing, corruption and corporate greed, because the odds are very high - greater than 100 to 1 - that if you're taking a statin, you don't really need it.

Even though grapefruits alone don't do much, the researchers suggest that people might be more likely to stick with them than cholesterol - lowering drugs, noting that most people with heart disease stop taking their statin drugs within a couple years, because of the adverse side effects, whereas grapefruit alone don't have any side effects.

Because the study involved only people with mildly or moderately high cholesterol, Jenkins said people with very high cholesterol shouldn't try to replace their statin medications with a dietary solution unless they're prepared to take diet seriously.

Statins could be handed out like ketchup packets, the researchers say, because they are very safe drugs to take.

Doctors are less inclined to direct a patient to stop taking statin medication because of the former two symptoms (since heart disease and strokes are much more serious afflictions), but developing diabetes is obviously problematic also, so good awareness and consistent checkups and blood sugar testing should be standard when taking these medications.