NHS to review making statins available for pharmacists
If only 45% of people with a high risk of cardiovascular disease were identified and treated, 6,000 strokes and heart attacks could be avoided over the next ten years.
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Tag: statins
Statins may help treat serious mental illness
Statins could bring significant benefits to people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or non-affective psychoses, indicate new findings from UCL-led research.
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UK researchers find evidence of ‘nocebo’ effect for statins
Patients report more side effects when they know they are taking a statin than when don’t, according to findings of a recent study led by researchers at Imperial College London, funded by Pfizer, and published in The Lancet.
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Statin harms exaggerated, finds major review
A comprehensive review of the efficacy and safety of statins, based on 30 years’ research and published in The Lancet, has concluded that the therapy’s benefits have been underestimated and harms exaggerated.
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