Statins gain wonder status

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"Statins, designed to reduce the risk of heart disease by
lowering cholesterol, are starting to look like wonder
drugs able to ward off everything but old age and taxes.

While cholesterol-lowering drugs have many benefits, they
also have side effects that don't recommend them to every
patient.

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New studies find that the drugs lower the risk of stroke
and heart attacks in people at high risk for heart
disease, such as diabetics, but whose cholesterol levels
may be normal or even low.

I read that they may work by neing ant-inflammatory.

The level of cholesterol is not so bad if the HDL or LDL
particles are large - not so dense. Then maybe they do not
difuse into artery walls so much.

Size is now starting to be measured by gel
electrophoresis, but I understand it may also can be
inferred from triglycerides, or Apo B to LDL ratio. I am
just waiting for results.

And some new

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preliminary research suggests that statins may help
prevent a range of other ills, including Alzheimer's,

or increase dementia.

glaucoma and macular degeneration,

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as well as breast, colon and prostate cancer.

Or increase cancer as the body produces the anti-cancer
vitamin D from cholesterol and sunlight.

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Should statins be in every medicine cabinet?

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No, doctors say. Statins, like all drugs, can pose dangers
to some people, and they're more effective in some people
than in others.

Which do you say?

But

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the drugs do appear to have health benefits beyond their
original target, and that's prompting a shift in thinking
about how they should be used."

Take a look at why they help certain people at what
functional costs, before going out trial and error on
everybody with your sort of feasibilty perception creation.

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...more about JUPITER and OTC sales of statins.

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Full article:

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usatoday.com2004 06 28Open ↗
statins_x.htm

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