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Common cholesterol drug greatly alters inflammatory response to common cold
News Category: Clinical News Date: 06/03/2014Cold season may be just behind us, but a new discovery may shed light on how this common condition triggers asthma attacks. In a new research report...
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High Statin Doses Increase Risk of Diabetes
News Category: Clinical News Date: 06/04/2014In a study covering more than 100,000 patient records in three nations, researchers with the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies...
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People With Heart Disease, Diabetes May Be More Likely to Stay on Statins
News Category: Clinical News Date: 06/24/2014People who have heart disease or diabetes, the overweight or obese and former smokers are most likely to keep taking cholesterol-lowering statins, a new...
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Statin use decreases risk of Barrett's esophagus, study shows
News Category: Clinical News Date: 07/25/2014Statins, a class of drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol levels, significantly reduce a patient's risk of developing Barrett's esophagus, according to...
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Statins May Protect Against Microvascular Complications of Diabetes
News Category: Clinical News Date: 09/10/2014The development of common diabetes complications that can lead to blindness and amputations could be reduced by taking statins, indicates new research...
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Statin treatment among over-80 age group must always be assessed individually
News Category: Association News Date: 09/18/2014The need for cholesterol treatment among people over 80 must always be assessed individually by taking into account the patient's overall situation and...
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Statin Use During Hospitalization for Hemorrhagic Stroke Associated With...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 09/23/2014Patients who were treated with a statin in the hospital after suffering from a hemorrhagic stroke were significantly more likely to survive than those who...
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Most older adults qualify for statin therapy under new cholesterol...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 11/25/2014Nearly all individuals in their late 60s and early 70s -- including 100 percent of men -- now qualify for and should consider starting a statin medication...
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New study strengthens evidence of connection between statin use and...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 12/03/2014Few classes of drugs have had such a transformative effect on the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as have statins, prescribed to reduce total...
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Clarithromycin-Statin Mix Can Cause Drug Interactions, Requiring Hospitalization
News Category: Clinical News Date: 12/22/2014The combination of the common antibiotic clarithromycin with some statins increases the risk of adverse events, which may require hospital admission for...
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Statins May Not Lower Parkinson's Risk, Experts Say
News Category: Clinical News Date: 02/19/2015The use of statins may not be associated with lowering risk for Parkinson's disease, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State College of...
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Poor Response to Cholesterol Drugs May Indicate Blocked Arteries
News Category: Clinical News Date: 02/27/2015Patients whose bad cholesterol levels don't respond to cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may have more artery blockages than those whose cholesterol levels...
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Lower Prevalence of Diabetes Found Among Patients With Inherited High...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 03/11/2015The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among 25,000 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (a genetic disorder characterized by high low-density...
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Statins Can Delay Prostate Cancer Progression in Patients Receiving Androgen...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 05/07/2015Men who went on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs when they began androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer had a longer time in which their disease...
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Compliance vs. Reducing Polypharmacy
I hear our leaders (especially Bruce Roberts from NCPA)touting that pharmacists' potential role/contributions in Health Care Reform is in improving compliance. Is that really how we can make an impact?...
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Treating More Adults With Statins Would Be Cost-Effective Way to Boost Heart...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 07/15/2015A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers has found that it would be cost-effective to treat 48-67% of all adults aged 40-75...
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Statin Side Effects Linked to Off-Target Reaction in Muscle Mitochondria
News Category: In Development Date: 09/03/2015For about a quarter of patients, statins come with muscle pain, stiffness, cramps, or weakness without any clear signs of muscle damage. These symptoms...
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Cholesterol Levels, Not Statins, Influence Colorectal Cancer Risk
News Category: Clinical News Date: 04/27/2016Long-term use of the cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins does not appear to decrease a patient's risk of colorectal cancer, suggests a new, large...
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