Pancreatic cancer: statins could help prevent the disease
Statins – drugs commonly used to combat high cholesterol – may prevent cancers that result from chronic inflammation, such as ...
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Periodontal disease: statins could reduce gum inflammation
Statins are drugs prescribed for cholesterol. A new study shows they could help treat gum disease, also called periodontal disease. ...
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Venous thrombosis: statins combined with hormonal therapy reduce the risk
In postmenopausal women, taking both statins and hormone therapy may play a role in reducing the risk of blood clots. ...
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Stroke: can statins reduce the risk of recurrence?
People who have had a stroke and take statins, medications to lower blood cholesterol levels, may have a lower risk ...
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Heart disease: Bempodoic acid, alternative to statins, reduces deaths
A new study shows that early use of bempedoic acid can significantly reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease ...
Read moreSix million French victims of soda disease
It is an astonishing image that gives us this morning The Parisian. The one who sat on the TV sets ...
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Bad cholesterol: statins would be useless in healthy people
People with high LDL cholesterol levels, but otherwise healthy, would not need to take statin therapy. THE ESSENTIAL LDL cholesterol ...
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Statins, diabetes and muscle pain: dreadful side effects
Medications called "statins" sometimes have dreadful side effects, such as diabetes and muscle aches. THE ESSENTIAL Statins include atorvastatin, fluvastatin, ...
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Do statins also cure depression?
Statins, which are among the most commonly prescribed drugs to prevent heart attacks and strokes, may also offer protection against ...
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Statins may slow metastasis
Statins, drugs prescribed to patients suffering from excess cholesterol, could also stop the proliferation of metastases. THE ESSENTIAL Sometimes the ...
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Statins: an overestimated intolerance?
Intolerance to statins only concerns less than 10% of patients treated with these drugs for excess cholesterol. According to the ...
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Statins: in case of stopping, watch out for the heart!
While, in recent years, statins have been the subject of increased mistrust, researchers are bringing new elements likely to shed ...
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Suffering a head injury increases the risk of stroke
Within four months of injury, the risk is particularly high, but remains significant for several years. THE ESSENTIAL The long-term ...
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Statins do not cause muscle pain
Prescribed in case of cholesterol, statins are associated with muscle and joint pain. However, a new study shows that they ...
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Statins and placebo cause … the same side effects!
Prescribed to lower cholesterol levels, statins would cause side effects in patients almost similar to those of… placebos. THE ESSENTIAL ...
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Covid-19: statins would reduce the severity of the infection
Used to lower cholesterol levels, statins would reduce the risk of serious Covid-19 infection because they eliminate the cholesterol used ...
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Prostate cancer: how statins reduce the risk of an aggressive tumor
An American study provides descriptions of the biological process that could cause the destruction of cancer cells linked to taking ...
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Cholesterol: get tested early to reduce long-term cardiovascular risks
Being screened for cholesterol early would allow effective long-term treatment to be instituted to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease ...
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High doses of statins increase the risk of osteoporosis
Statins, these drugs intended to fight against cholesterol, are not devoid of side effects. A study has just shown that ...
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New recommendations on reducing bad cholesterol levels
New recommendations on the objective of reducing bad cholesterol and other lipoproteins were presented at the congress of the European ...
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Giving up statins would increase cardiovascular risk by 46% in seniors
A new study reveals that discontinuing statin treatment in the elderly increases cardiovascular risk by 46%.In recent times, the effectiveness ...
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Heart attack in diabetics: a reduction in cholesterol limits the risk of recurrence
Lowering cholesterol levels in diabetics after a heart attack would reduce the risk of a new accident. Diabetic patients run ...
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Long-term statins reduce risk of glaucoma
Treatment of excess cholesterol with statins would reduce the risk of open-angle glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness. Using statins ...
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Statins could reduce the risk of glaucoma but without justifying preventive treatment
Statins that treat excess cholesterol may reduce the risk of glaucoma. But the researchers who conducted the study leading to ...
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Cholesterol: a new drug could replace statins
A new class of oral cholesterol-lowering drugs has recently been developed. They could help patients who cannot take statins because ...
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Statins may be effective against cardiovascular disease in the elderly
Statins would reduce the risk of vascular events in people over 75 years old. These treatments have been controversial for ...
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Cholesterol: Alfred Alberts, one of the fathers of statins, dies at the age of 87
The American biochemist Alfred Alberts has just died at the age of 87. Unknown, it is nevertheless at the origin ...
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Cholesterol: beyond 75 years, the benefit of statins decreases
Beyond 75 years, the benefit of statins fades, according to a new study published in the BJM. The older we ...
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Against cholesterol, fewer statins in Europe
European recommendations to fight against the consequences of hypercholesterolemia in primary prevention encourage less use of statins than others. They ...
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Cholesterol: statins reduce premature mortality well
A 20-year study shows that lowering bad cholesterol levels helps prevent cardiovascular disease.Controversial drugs, statins have lost the confidence of ...
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