Príklady statin

• However, they also observed that many people discontinued some medications, including statins, altogether.

• The association of statins with neuropathy is controversial.

• Cholesterol-lowering with statin drugs, risk of stroke, and total mortality.

• Cholesterol-lowering does t herefore appear to be beneficial in the primary prevention of cerebrovascular events, though this benefit is principally regarding treatment with statin drugs.

• Although we cannot judge if use of statins in primary prevention at risks above 30 percent is efficient, below 30 percent it is not.

• The possibility of modulating raft homeostasis, using statins and synthetic sphingolipid analogues, offers new approaches for therapeutic interventions in raft-associated diseases.

• It is in the middle of the second quartile for statin prescribing.

• The hospital-based statin expenditure pattern is echoed in primary care but to a considerably greater degree.

• In those cases, attention to haemodynamic status is imperative alongside medical therapy (aspirin, statin, beta-blocker).

• However, in an incremental cost-effectiveness analysis, the cheapest statins still cannot compete with smoking cessation or aspirin.

• Lowering cholesterol by taking statins presents a somewhat better picture, because statins seem to have effects beyond lowering cholesterol.

• The only statin non-user had discontinued her statin treatment because of side effects.

• Traditional drugs (oral contraceptives, clomiphene and antiandrogens) have been supplemented by novel pharmaceutical modalities (insulin sensitisers and statins).

• Furthermore, it is known that the clinical benefit from statin treatment is related to baseline risk rather than to actual lipid levels (20).

• Antihypertensives showed lower costs and better efficiency than statins but also lower effectivity.