Statins

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Reuters - People who are tempted to quit taking their statin medication because it failed to prevent a heart attack should think twice, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday. ...

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Studies in the past have shown a correlation between low LDL cholesterol levels and the risk of cancer. Whether this correlation is merely an association or a cause-and-effect relationship... ...

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Related Articles Unraveling pleiotropic effects of Statins: bit by bit, a slow case with perspective. Circ Res. 2008 Aug 15;103(4):334-6 Authors: Arslan F, Pasterkamp G, de Kleijn DP PMID: 18703784 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] ...

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Related Articles Statins induce apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells through activation of JNK and enhancement of Bim expression. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2008 Sep 3; Authors: Liu H, Liang SL, Kumar S, Weyman CM, Liu W, Zhou A PURPOSE: Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death among all gynecological malignancies in Western countries. Although therapy for ovarian cancer has been greatly improved in the past 20 years, the overall survival for patients with advanced ovarian cancer has not changed significantly. The poor survival rates in patients with advanced ovarian cancer are due both to late diagnosis and to lack of effective drugs for the majority of patients who have a relapse and develop resistance to current chemotherapy agents used for ovarian cancer. Thus, developing and discovering effective novel drugs with different molecular structures from conventional chemotherapy agents have become an urgent clinical need. METHODS: Ovarian cancer cells were treated with lovastatin and atorvastatin. Apoptosis in these cells and tumor formation in soft agar were determined. The molecular mechanism by which Statins suppress ovarian cancer cell growth was evaluated. RESULTS: Both lovastatin and atorvastatin effectively induced apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells and suppressed anchorage-independent growth of these cells in soft agar. Further investigation of the molecular mechanism has revealed that the expression of Cdc42 and Rac1, small GT ...

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Medical Research News Genetic lipoprotein disorders are frequently seen in patients with premature coronary artery disease (CAD). An example of strong genetic predisposition is the disorder: familial hypercholesterolemia, where a single gene defect ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Older people who have had a stroke or mini-stroke benefit from cholesterol-lowering statin drugs just as much as younger people do, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who are tempted to quit taking their statin medication because it failed to prevent a heart attack should think twice, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday. ...

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Our expert answers some of the most frequent questions about Statins after they were controversially linked with cancer. ...

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Cholesterol-lowering drugs prescribed less often for seniors, studies find, despite benefits ...

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Title: Statins: No Cancer Risk Category: Health News Created: 8/21/2008 Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008 ...

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EMax Health Sep 1 2008 5:29PM GMT ...

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A couple of years ago, I got concerned about what I was reading in Joe Mercola’s newsletters about the dangers of long-term use of Lipitor and other statin drugs, so I talked to my doctor. His reply: “All of us baby boomer doctors are taking Statins. They’re perfectly safe.” So I have continued to take [...] ...

Source: www.healthcentral.com --- 5 days ago
A new study suggests that daily supplements of fish oil--which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids--may reduce the number of deaths and hospitalizations from heart failure, while a parallel study found that cholesterol-lowering Statins do not appear to help the condition. ...

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Patients who stop taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs after suffering a heart attack are at twice the risk of dying during the following year compared with patients who have never used Statins, new research findings suggest. ...

Source: www.medpagetoday.com --- 4 days ago
DETROIT (MedPage Today) -- For patients who have suffered a stroke or transient ischemic attack, atorvastatin (Lipitor) reduced the risk of another stroke in young patients and reduced the risk of stroke or TIA in older patients, according to a post hoc analysis. ...

Source: www.emaxhealth.com --- 16 days ago
It was previously thought that cholesterol-lowering drugs - Statins - increase cancer risk, but this new large study says that Statins neither increase, nor decrease cancer risk. A year ago a team of researchers from Tufts Medical Center in Boston analyzed 13 studies involving participants taking Statins. They reported that people taking Statins for lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL - bad cholesterol) are at increased cancer risk, although the increase was not significant - only one case out of 1000. read more ...

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Q: My husband is 63 years old, 5 feet 11 inches, 145 pounds (small frame) and has a blood pressure of 115/70. He currently takes 20 milligrams of Lipitor for an untreated cholesterol level of 280. I w... ...

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Aside from controlling or reducing cholesterol levels, a recent study, led by D. ...