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Statins are already among the top-selling prescription drugs in the U.S. for the treatment of heart disease. Now, a new study suggests that the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs have a significant additional benefit: slowing the lung deterioration that occurs naturally with age - and is often worsened by cigarette smoking...
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health report in the October 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine that patients who took statins to manage their heart disease maintained stronger lung function over a 10-year period than people who never used the medicines...
Recent studies have proved that statins not only control lipids, but are also potent regulators of inflammation - a key cause of lung deterioration. That's what led Joel Schwartz, an epidemiologist studying pollution and lung function, to examine the effects of statins. He and his colleagues looked at data on 803 subjects involved in the ongoing Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study, all of whom had their lung function measured in so-called spirometer-based breathing tests between 1995 and 2005. "It's interesting that we saw such a big effect here," Schwartz says. The statin users showed half the rate...
...architecture. In a characteristically exuberant 1997 article that brought him national attention, he likened Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, to Marilyn Monroe. (The building had a "voluptuous style" and an apparent urge to "let its dress fly up in the air.") Muschamp was 59 and had lung cancer...
...study suggests it can: by replacing nitric oxide in stored blood, Stamler showed that the risk of heart attack and death from transfusion dropped dramatically, at least in mice. And there's reason to believe such replenishment could work in human patients as well; already, premature babies born with lung and respiratory problems are placed in NO-rich environments to ensure that their still developing tissues get the oxygen they need to grow properly. For now, the American Red Cross, which oversees 14 million units of banked blood, is waiting for additional study results before changing any of its processing...