Word: zocor
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...three diabetics will die from heart disease or stroke, yet diabetics often go undertreated for these life-threatening complications. A pair of studies offered a strong argument last week against such neglect. Drugs called statins, such as Zocor and Lipitor, which are widely used to lower cholesterol levels, were found to significantly reduce strokes and heart attacks in diabetics. The need is growing: the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that more than 17 million Americans have diabetes, up 50% over the past decade. And it's only going to get worse; 1 in 3 children born...
STATINS WORK Already 25 million people worldwide take so-called statin drugs to lower their cholesterol. The largest statin study ever conducted shows that one of them--a drug called Zocor--lowers the risk of heart attack and stroke one-third in high-risk patients (for example, people with diabetes). The big surprise: the drugs worked even when cholesterol levels were normal. The same study looked at whether the antioxidant vitamins C, E and beta-carotene have a similarly beneficial effect. The answer...
...three otherwise healthy cardiologists whether they are taking a cholesterol-lowering drug, and chances are good that at least two of them will reply with a hearty "You bet." Their prescription of choice: one of a group of drugs called statins--marketed under such names as Lipitor, Pravachol and Zocor--that have been proved to reduce deaths among heart-attack survivors by more than 40% over five years. In effect, the doctors are taking a highly educated gamble that the medications, currently taken by more than 10 million Americans, will be just as effective in those who do not necessarily...
Although the first statins were approved in the U.S. in 1987, they didn't really take off until 1994, when researchers in Scandinavia proved that simvastatin (brand name Zocor) could significantly decrease a heart patient's risk of dying from a second heart attack. After investigators showed that both simvastatin and pravastatin (Pravachol) could cut the number of first heart attacks among those with high cholesterol, doctors assumed that all statins could do likewise...
...fermented on rice contains small amounts of the same active ingredient found in lovastatin (Mevacor). The FDA tried to ban the supplement's sale in the U.S., but the action has become the subject of a lengthy court process. The controversy hasn't stopped Merck, which manufactures Mevacor and Zocor, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which produces Pravachol, from arguing that they should be allowed to sell their pharmaceutical-grade products at similarly low doses to the general public...