Word: statin
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...asking patients to make simple lifestyle changes, including getting more exercise and eating omega-3 fatty acids, found in certain deepwater fish such as salmon and tuna, because these activities stimulate the liver to churn out more HDL. They also have an added incentive to prescribe the powerful statin drugs that lower LDL because those appear to do double duty, pumping up HDL levels 10% to 15%. And if that isn't enough, they are eyeing the arrival of HDL-boosting pills: Pfizer's torcetrapib is currently in clinical trials in combination with a statin and could be ready...
...national nose at the rest of the world--none of that would have happened because it wouldn't really matter. After all, Americans may have invented the integrated circuit and the Internet and the lightbulb, but people all over the world get to use them. Same goes for the statin drugs that lower cholesterol and the iPod. And we are obviously free to use inventions made elsewhere, such as Velcro and the ballpoint...
...STATINS The more than 10 million Americans who take statin drugs to lower cholesterol may be enjoying some unexpected benefits. New studies suggested that regularly taking medicines like Lipitor, Lescol, Pravachol and Zocor may halve a patient's risk of developing colon and advanced prostate cancers while reducing their risk of pancreatic and esophageal cancers more than 50%. Another study showed that patients who aren't on statins can cut their risk of death following a heart attack more than 50% if they take them before hospitalization and within 24 hours after the attack. Doctors think the cholesterol- and inflammation...
...study “Statin Use and Fracture Risk,” which appeared in the Archive of Internal Medicine on Sept. 26, concluded that those who take statin cholesterol pills are 32 percent more likely not to endure a bone fracture than those on lipid-lowering therapy, a common alternative to statin use. They are also 36 percent more likely not to endure a break than those receiving no cholesterol therapy...
...best at predicting heart problems in those with several risk factors: high cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, a family history of heart disease. "The question for these people is, How aggressive should their treatment be?" says Dr. Matthew Budoff, a cardiologist at UCLA. "Do we put them on a statin for the rest of their lives or tell them to just watch their diet? Knowing how much calcium they have could help inform this decision." --By Alice Park