A Longer Life on Statins?
What are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat, and average postponement of death ...
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The Real Benefits of Statins and Their Side Effects
A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you. “Physicians have a ...
Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins?
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out of their way—in direct-to-consumer ads, ...
Should You Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a ...
Statins may reduce risk of death by 39% for patients with life-threatening sepsis, large study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sepsis is when the immune system overshoots its inflammatory reaction to an infection, so strongly that ...
Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high ...
The 411 on Statins
The cholesterol-lowering statin drug Lipitor has become the best-selling drug of all time, generating more than $140 billion in global ...
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