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Do I really need statins? DR MARTIN SCURR answers your health questions
DR MARTIN SCURR: Atheroma can lead to a heart attack or stroke, both caused when the arteries feeding these areas are blocked by fatty deposits or a blood clot.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Statins and blood pressure pills are not a 'free pass' to avoid healthy habits, experts warn
A study of 40,000 people in Finland suggests unhealthy habits could render the drugs - which are supposed to prevent life-threatening events such as heart attack and stroke - pointless.
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stopping statins at 75 'raises the risk of a heart attack or stroke'
Scientists led by a hospital in Paris studied the medical records of 120,000 people and found those who stopped taking statins at 75 were also 26 per cent more likely to have a stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE: Chris Tarrant answers our health quiz
The TV star, from Reading, walks three miles a day, watches what he eats and still enjoys sex. He's also taken statins and a blood-thinner since suffering a stroke in 2014.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
People taking statins are less likely to die early
Patients who take statins after suffering a heart attack or stroke are almost 25 per cent less likely to have another one or to die early, researchers at the Heart Institute in Utah have found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Quitting statins raises risk of a second stroke
The papers, published today by the American Heart Association, lay bare a worrying trend that could be hampering efforts to curb strokes, the fifth-biggest killer in the US.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Thousands of stroke patients ‘stop taking statins'
Some patients have been put off the pills because they are put off by misleading scare stories, scientists said. Six million Britons take statins every day to reduce their cholesterol.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Patients at risk of heart disease are not getting the drugs they need
Just under half of stroke patients were not prescribed statins and a quarter were not given anti-hypertensive drugs, researchers from the University of Birmingham found.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GPs instructed to restrict life-saving drugs to those at risk of a heart attack or stroke
Stockport CCG has ordered GPs to ignore the official advice for prescribing statins. But experts have warned that one in three people are killed through heart disease and stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Severe migraine sufferers 'should be given statins' because of stroke and heart disease risk
People who experience an ‘aura’ - flashing lights or confusing thoughts - before a migraine strikes should be considered for the cholesterol-busting drugs, according to a Devon-based doctor.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Statins warning: Healthy patients using the drugs are more likely to suffer side-effects than gain health benefits, say doctors
Doctors say most healthy people should be advised to exercise more and improve their diet rather than being offered the cholesterol-busting drugs to reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New cholesterol-lowering drug evolocumab 'halves the risk of a heart attack'
People taking an experimental drug called evolocumab for high cholesterol were half as likely to die or suffer a heart attack or stroke as those taking conventional statins.
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UK is the statins capital of Europe: With 1 in 8 now taking cholesterol-busting drugs
Doctors say rising obesity is behind the increase in prescriptions for the drug, which protects against heart attack and stroke.
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 26, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
