0 a drug that reduces the level of cholesterol (= a substance containing fat in your blood that can cause heart disease)
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.
