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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: study finds + cholesterol-lowering drugs + finds  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)

Bone-Loss Drug Linked to Heart Risk
U.S. News & World Report, DC - Apr 28, 2008
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Increase In Drug Copay Boosts Odds That Older Adults Will Cut Back ...
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News-Medical.net, Australia - May 8, 2008
Despite widespread use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, a significant number of cardiac patients continue to suffer heart attacks and stroke. ...
Merck's quarterly profit jumps, beating forecasts
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ - Apr 22, 2008
... it finds itself trying to salvage the reputation -- and revenue -- of Vytorin, a cholesterol-lowering medicine Merck sells in a partnership with ...
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… cholesterol lowering with simvastatin during 5 years in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study -
TR Pedersen, K Berg, TJ Cook, O Faergeman, T … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1996 - Am Med Assoc
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was designed ... Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and Colorectal Cancer Incidence in a ...

[CITATION] Intensive Statin Therapy?A Sea Change in Cardiovascular Prevention -
EJ Topol - New England Journal of Medicine, 2004 - Mass Med Soc
... MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study of cholesterol lowering with simvastatin in 20 536
high-risk ... 8. Kolata G. Study of two cholesterol drugs finds one halts ...

… of lipid-lowering therapy on early mortality after acute coronary syndromes: an observational study -
HD Aronow, EJ Topol, MT Roe, PL Houghtaling, KE … - The Lancet, 2001 - Elsevier
... In this study, we sought to find out whether ... In an observational study from the Swedish ...
Ischemia Reduction with Aggressive Cholesterol Lowering (MIRACL) Study ...

Lipid-Lowering Drugs and Risk of Myopathy: A Population-Based Follow-Up Study. -
D Gaist, LAG Rodr?guez, C Huerta, J Hallas, SH … - Epidemiology, 2001 - epidem.com
... a public health perspective, we find it reassuring ... and tolerability of cholesterol
lowering with simvastatin ... in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study. ...

… -3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Inhibitors and the Risk of Cancer A Nested Case-Control Study -
L Blais, A Desgagne, J LeLorier - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2000 - Am Med Assoc
... We did not find a significant positive association ... The results of our study provide
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Usefulness of statin drugs in protecting against atrial fibrillation in patients with coronary … -
Y Young-Xu, S Jabbour, R Goldberg, CM Blatt, T … - The American Journal of Cardiology, 2003 - Elsevier
... Interestingly, we did not find such a pattern ... AF was independent of its
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Cholesterol lowering drugs and risk of age related maculopathy: prospective cohort study with … -
R van Leeuwen, JR Vingerling, A Hofman, P de Jong, … - BMJ: British Medical Journal, 2003 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... The fact that we did not find an association ... ARM) associated with the use of cholesterol
lowering drugs. Footnotes. Funding: The Rotterdam study is supported by ...

Late prednisone withdrawal in cyclosporine-treated kidney transplant patients: a randomized study -
AA Hollander, RJ Hene, J Hermans, LA van Es, FJ … - J Am Soc Nephrol, 1997 - jasn.org
... This randomized study was conducted to find out if ... 0.1) and 35% less patients (23
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Heart Attacks: Gone with the Century? -
MS Brown, JL Goldstein - Science, 1996 - sciencemag.org
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Are lipid-lowering drugs also antiarrhythmic drugs? an analysis of the antiarrhythmics versus … -
LB Mitchell, JL Powell, AM Gillis, V Kehl, AP … - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2003 - Am Coll Cardio Found
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs don't offset healthy choices, study finds

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Within the medical field, it is often assumed that patients view cholesterol-lowering medications (or statins) as a license to eat whatever they like -- they figure their medication has them covered, so a steak here and there won’t hurt. However, a study published in the August issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings finds that such patients don’t tend to adopt unhealthy diets when prescribed statins.

Researchers also found that some patients were placed on cholesterol-lowering drugs before they’d made a good faith effort at improving their lifestyle to better their health. And some said they would have preferred starting with lifestyle alterations rather than medication.

Devin Mann, M.D., lead author of the article on statin use, says physicians should reconsider how they’re treating patients who seek preventive care for cardiovascular disease, namely by giving up their long-held assumptions about them.

“Physicians aren’t good at predicting patient behavior, so they should seek to form a partnership of trust with patients based on mutual respect and optimal communication,” says Dr. Mann from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

This study involved 71 patients who had been prescribed statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Patients were interviewed at the time of prescription and three and six months later, when no significant change in saturated fat intake was noted.

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Other authors of the report were John Allegrante, Ph.D., of Columbia University, New York; Sundar Natarajan, M.D., of New York University School of Medicine; Victor Montori, M.D., of Mayo Clinic; Ethan Halm, M.D., of Mount Sinai, New York; and Mary Charlson, M.D., of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

A peer-review journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes original articles, reviews and editorials dealing with clinical and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research and clinical epidemiology. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is published monthly by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research as part of its commitment to the medical education of physicians. The journal has been published for more than 80 years and has a circulation of 130,000 nationally and internationally. Articles are available online at www.mayoclinicproceedings.com.

To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. MayoClinic.com (www.mayoclinic.com) is available as a resource for your health stories.

Contact: John Murphy 507-284-5005 (days) 507-284-2511 (evenings) e-mail: newsbureau@mayo.edu
 
 
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