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Can Statins Prevent Dementia?
A study of nearly 58,000 patients found that high potency statins had the strongest protective effects against dementia.
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
High doses of statins prevent dementia in older people, according to research presented at the European Society of Cardiogists by Dr Tin-Tse Lin from Taiwan.
The study of nearly 58,000 patients found that high potency statins had the strongest protective effects against dementia.
“Statins are widely used in the older population to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. But recent reports of statin-associated cognitive impairment have led the US Food and Drug Admi...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 2, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Merck 'Evergreens' Off-Patent Lipitor By Creating Combination Drug With
No Additional Benefit
By Glyn MoodyBig pharma often gets a rather rough ride here on Techdirt, what with its attempts to stop governments granting licenses for life-saving and low-cost generics in emerging countries, engaging in legal action to prevent drug safety information being released, and paying kickbacks to doctors. But sometimes you get the impression that drug companies really go out of their way to be disliked, as this great post by Josh Bloom on the Medical Progress Today site, pointed out to us by John Wilbanks, demonstrates:[Merck] just received approval for the cholesterol-lowering combinat...
Source: PharmaGossip - July 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
May Diabetes-Related News Snippets
Conclusion: "Compared with pravastatin, treatment with higher potency statins, especially atorvastatin and simvastatin, might be associated with an increased risk of new onset diabetes."22% higher risk with Lipitor (atorvastatin) and 18 percent higher with Crestor (rosuvastatin).In mainstream press coverage, Drug company shills,, a.k.a. well known cardiologists, bend over backward to ignore this latest confirmation of a phenomenon that has been public knowledge for more than a year. The reason that statins cause diabetes may have to do with the fact that they impair the operation mitochondria--the part of the cel...
Source: Diabetes Update - June 3, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jenny Source Type: blogs
ESC on anticoagulants; FDA on Liptruzet; Midei suit; MitraClip
ESC on anticoagulants; FDA approves atorvastatin/ezetimibe combo (Liptruzet) ; Midei suit settled; MitraClip
Source: Blogs@theHeart.org - May 10, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: theheart.org Tags: This week in cardiology from heartwire Source Type: blogs
Blood Sample Mismatch Leads ‘Anguished’ Authors To Retract Three Lipitor Papers
Three substudies of the influential TNT (Treating to New Targets) trial have been retracted after the sponsor of the trial, Pfizer, discovered that blood samples from the study had been matched to the wrong participants. The main results of TNT, published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine, had a major impact on clinical practice and statin prescription patterns. The trial supported the increasingly aggressive use of statins and helped to solidify the enormous commercial success of atorvastatin (Lipitor, Pfizer). The 3 newly-retracted substudies do not appear to affect the main finding of TNT. Two paper...
Source: CardioBrief - April 16, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Larry Husten Tags: Uncategorized American Heart Journal atorvastatin journal of the american college of cardiology Lipitor Pfizer Source Type: blogs
#183: Mixed messages on new bleeding data with dabigatran; "high-potency" statins linked to acute kidney injury; dabigatran might cut hospital days vs standard anticoagulants in new AF; US supermarket chain giving away atorvastatin
Mixed messages on new bleeding data with dabigatran; "high-potency" statins linked to acute kidney injury; dabigatran might cut hospital days vs standard anticoagulants in new AF; US supermarket chain giving away atorvastatin
Source: Blogs@theHeart.org - March 22, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: theheart.org Tags: This week in cardiology from heartwire Source Type: blogs
Baby Boomers Living Longer, But Less Healthy Lives!
I just read some surprising results of a study published in Arch Intern Med. (2013;173(2):1-2) regarding the overall health status of aging baby boomers compared with the previous generation. The authors analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), including NHANES III (1988-1994) (for previous generation) and the NHANES for 2007 to 2010 (for baby boomers), focusing on respondents who were aged 46 to 64 years during either period. "The 2 cohorts were compared with regard to health status, functional and work disability, healthy lifestyle characteristics, and presence of chronic disease....
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - February 4, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: statins Cholesterol baby boomers diabetes Life Expectancy Source Type: blogs
