Sentences with phrase «women taking statins»

«Those elderly women taking statins should be carefully and regularly monitored for increased blood glucose to ensure early detection and management of diabetes.»

Not exact matches

Research has shown women have poorer adherence to taking their statin medication to treat high cholesterol, perhaps due to somewhat dissimilar pharmacological properties in a woman's body than a man's.

UQ School of Public Health researcher Dr Mark Jones said women over 75 faced a 33 per cent higher chance of developing diabetes if they were taking statins.

«We found that almost 50 per cent of women in their late seventies and eighties in the study took statins, and five per cent were diagnosed with new - onset diabetes,» Dr Jones said.

Older Australian women taking cholesterol - lowering statins face a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, according to a University of Queensland study.

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).

Like thalidomide and Accutane, statin drugs are a class X drug with regard to pregnancy, meaning they are contraindicated and should NOT be taken by pregnant women.

Women, and young women especially, do not need to be taking staWomen, and young women especially, do not need to be taking stawomen especially, do not need to be taking statins.

For example, even though the guidelines recommended that women between the ages of 45 and 75 at increased risk of heart disease and with relatively high LDL levels take statins, the fine print in the 284 - page document admitted, «Clinical trials of LDL lowering generally are lacking for this risk category.»

Studies show that women taking Lipitor and other statins have a nearly 50 % chance of developing type 2 diabetes than women who did not take the drug.