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(As has been mentioned before, in my opinion Cardiologist Richard Fogoros publishes the most medically reliable heart information on the Web..) My own experience with statins is that all of them had side effects of muscle weakness and pain…. For months I attributed it to an exercise program, but by gong to such sites as [...]
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40-Point Cholesterol Drop=20% Lower Heart Risk Heart Disease Protection Tied to Cholesterol Reduction Achieved With Drugs WebMD Health News Sept. 27, 2005 — The heart disease protection offered by popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may be directly related to the degree they actually lower a person’s cholesterol levels. A new review of studies on statins shows [...]
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From the article: Although some statins are stronger than others, there’s no evidence that one is better than another at preventing heart attacks or other cardiovascular outcomes. National guidelines on lowering cholesterol treat the statins as equivalent. A study from the Boston VA Healthcare System supports this approach. Veterans who achieved the greatest reduction in [...]
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Brilliant idea. Let’s also put statins in the drinking water. Outlets Should Offer Free Statins With Junk Food Say UK Researchers MedPage Today 13 Aug 2010 Imagine this: order a cheeseburger and fries, and pick up a free cholesterol-busting statin tablet along with the other free condiments, that’s what a group of UK researchers suggests [...]
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from: Cardiology Blog, Alegent Health Care June 6, 2010 There is no class of medications in the history of the world that has been better studied that statins. This class of drugs is more properly termed HMG CoA reductase (3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl co-enzyme A reductase) inhibitors, but with a name like that a terser nickname is almost [...]
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Statin drugs, or HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, are a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol. Statins work by inhibiting the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase, the enzyme that determines the rate of cholesterol formation. Some research suggests that statin drugs may interfere with the body’s production of Co q10, a substance produced naturally in the body and [...]
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