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5 stories tagged "statins"
The Heart Scan Sold to Everyone Barely Beats a Free Calculator, Except for the Patients Insurers Won't Cover
The scan barely moved the needle over a free calculator for most adults, but inside the muddy middle of risk, calcium separated a 1.9 percent ten-year danger from a 14.3 percent one.
Brain & AgingStatins and Dementia: A Benefit the Registries Keep Finding and the Trials Never Do
A Danish registry of 132,000 diabetics reports early statin use lowers dementia risk by 15 percent. The randomized trials that could confirm it, covering tens of thousands of patients, found nothing.
Drugs & FDAFor Years the Muscle Aches Were Called a Nocebo Effect. A McMaster Lab Found Statins Injuring the Muscle Cell Itself.
An estimated 7 to 29 percent of statin users report muscle pain. The flagship trial called most of it a placebo response. In mouse and human muscle cells, a McMaster team has now traced a cholesterol-independent pathway by which statins damage muscle directly.
CancerChemo-Surviving Ovarian Cancer Cells Release Fructose to Loosen the Tumor Next Door
The same cholesterol-starving mechanism that loosens tumor cells implicates statins, the pills 39 million Americans take, yet the researchers who found it say keep taking them anyway.
Metabolic & WeightFor Forty Years He Said the Standard Cholesterol Target Was Wrong. A Computer Finally Agreed.
A Northwestern model projects that the little-used apoB test would prevent more heart attacks and strokes than the LDL number your doctor chases. And non-HDL, a number already printed free on your standard lab report, beat LDL too. No trial has tested any of it on a patient.