But he pointed out that statins would not affect all the negative effects of an unhealthy diet.
Cardiologists agree that most of those people should be getting statins, potentially at high doses instead.
It would be hard to justify prescribing Vytorin in the face of well established generic statins.
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Whatever statins do, and however they do it, it really works across the entire class.
Zetia lacks the muscle-weakening side effects that afflict the current crop of cholesterol blockbusters, called statins.
Sankyo invented Pravachol, one of the earliest statins, but licensed it in the U.S. to Bristol-Myers.
The selling point of Vytorin is that you Zetia boosts the cholesterol-lowering potency of statins.
It's really now clear that statins do a lot more than just lower cholesterol.
Why not put these people on Vascepa if they can not tolerate current Statins?
According to Pharmanex, the rice has several natural properties that help lower cholesterol, including chemicals statins.
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He emphasizes that he's not sure over-the-counter statins are a bad idea, but he is concerned.
These drugs, the statins, are the top sellers for Pfizer , Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb .
By 2001, Ridker had presented analyses of CRP's importance from completed studies of statins.
Among the statins we have seen differences in safety profiles that led Baycol to be recalled.
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Caution should be taken in prescribing statins for primary prevention among people at low cardiovascular risk.
If you have slightly elevated cholesterol, or even normal cholesterol, should you take statins?
Zetia is the only big success drug companies have had in cholesterol since the statins were invented.
Most already were taking cholesterol-lowering statins, aspirin and other medicines to lower their chances of heart problems.
Most approved cholesterol-lowering drugs belong to a class of medicines called statins, which work in the liver.
The patients had been treated so much with statins that it was difficult to show a difference.
With drug after drug, in population after population, statins reduced the rates of heart attacks and strokes.
The acceptance of statins as an important class of CV drugs was mirrored in their commercial success.
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The op-ed on the risk of diabetes from statins had nothing to do with changing my mind.
The FDA will no longer recommend routine and periodic monitoring of liver enzymes of patients taking statins.
Takeda's pill, TAK-475, aimed to lower LDL cholesterol in a different way than either the statins or Zetia.
Lipitor and other statins can be lifesaving for anyone with proven heart disease--a market of 13 million patients.
The NCEP did not release an estimate of how many patients should now take cholesterol-lowering drugs, called statins.
Patients, physicians and payers will all want to know how Vytorin stacks up against the more potent statins.
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Statins work to stop the production of cholesterol in the liver by blocking an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase.
That leaves patients seeking a heart-health booster beyond statins with old-fashioned lifestyle methods such as diet and exercise.
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