All the participants were part of the Long Term Intervention
with Pravastatin in Ischaemic Disease Trial and had had a heart attack or been admitted to hospital for unstable angina in the preceding three to 36 months.
Not exact matches
They found that people
with the gene variant had the highest risk of side effects when they were given a statin called simvastatin, but this risk was much lower when they took
pravastatin.
The use of lipophilic, or fat - soluble, statins such as simvastatin and atorvastatin was associated
with a reduced risk of Parkinson's, while no such association was found for hydrophilic, or water - soluble, statins such as
pravastatin and rosuvastatin.
Recently two phase II clinical trials were initiated by treating HGPS patients
with Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTIs) and / or the combination of Zoledronate and
Pravastatin to prevent or delay the gravest infringements of the disease.
I just have a quick question, my current Doc wants me to go on
pravastatin but
with one autoimmune disease I don't want any chance of another (there's a rare autoimmune myopathy linked to statin drugs).