Dear Doctor: Patient has final say, needs to weigh risks and benefits of taking a statin
ANSWER: Because all drugs have the potential for harm, it’s always good to take a clear-eyed look at the risks and benefits ...
MedPage Today20h
Study: Statins Mitigate Heart Risks From JAK Inhibitors
As one would expect, baseline statin users across all three study arms had lower LDL cholesterol levels than nonusers.
Hosted on MSN10mon
CoQ10 and Statins: A Pharmacist Explains
It's theorized that lower levels of coQ10 are responsible for the muscular side effects of statin medications. But overall, the data is mixed and doesn't fully support taking coQ10 to counter all ...
Should I take statins? I’m weighing up the pros and cons before I commit
Around eight million people in the UK are on statins, and I may soon have to join them. The results of a couple of blood ...
Sun Journal25d
Statin drug doesn’t lower cholesterol levels as expected
S.A. ANSWER: Lovastatin (Mevacor) was the first statin drug approved, but newer statin drugs are more potent and have less likelihood of side effects ... who get no sun at all (whether they ...
Side effects, ADRS, NNT and NNH of drugs
Most of us are aware of the concept of drug side effects, which can be either negative or positive. The goal of any drug ...
Medscape1mon
Should All Hypertensive Patients Get a Statin?
When the lipid component of ASCOT was stopped after 3.3 years, the atorvastatin group had a reduction in LDL cholesterol of ... was that safety and side effects were closely similar between ...
The Telegraph25d
Statin drug doesn’t lower cholesterol levels as expected
S.A. ANSWER: Lovastatin (Mevacor) was the first statin drug approved, but newer statin drugs are more potent and have less likelihood of side effects. So ... people who get no sun at all (whether they ...