Blogs for cholesterol drugs category

Nov

2016

Learn About Statins and the Way It Controls Cholesterol

Statins are a class of drugs that help in lowering cholesterol levels in the human body. These drugs function by blocking the action of a liver enzyme that produces cholesterol. By lowering its levels, statin drugs reduce the risk of heart attacks because the amount...

by Dr Paul Zickler

Nov

2009

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Impact of flu infection lessened by statin drugs

Research lead by Meredith Vandemeer of Oregon's Public Health Division with the help of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 2,800 hospitalized people with the flu in 2007/2008. It was determined that those taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) were 50% less likely to...

by Dr Paul Zickler