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Cholesterol medication is safe, even after ten years of use
Researchers said that the use of drugs that reduce cholesterol continuously bring benefits without any serious problems of safety, such as increased risk of cancer, even after use for a long time.
British study found a wide followed patients for 11 years and has provided them with peace of mind not to put them at risk of heart attacks because they are usually prescribed these drugs for them to download the cholesterol in the blood for a very long time.
The so-called statin drugs are not without side effects. It can cause nausea, muscle aches, and sometimes damage the kidneys and liver.
But the long-term study found that the protection of the heart and followed 20,000 patients that there is no evidence that statins increase the risk of hardening of the blood vessels that lead to death Oardh for the development of cancer.
Said Richard Blbolj from the University of Oxford Clinical Trials Service Unit, which is one of the leaders of the study, that the continued use of the evidence for the use of medication for a long time was "registered and documented."
Outside experts agreed that the results were reassuring. Has indicated some previous studies on the possibility of cancer risk when using statins, although the analysis done by researchers in the United States three years ago and concluded that there was no causal link.
Wrote Payal Kohli and Christopher December Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a comment in the Lancet medical journal daily and results were published on the Internet "must be clarified what is worrying to feel comfortable, and physicians must be reassured about the safety in the long term of this treatment to save the lives of patients the risk of heart disease and blood vessels. "
The study showed the benefit of 40 milligrams per day of simvastatin.
Found a decrease of 23 percent in the incidence of heart attack, stroke and vascular disease after five years to continue taking the treatment, and this encouraged to continue for six more years to take the drug statin unchanged, and the results were similar in both groups of patients.
Researchers said that the use of drugs that reduce cholesterol continuously bring benefits without any serious problems of safety, such as increased risk of cancer, even after use for a long time.
British study found a wide followed patients for 11 years and has provided them with peace of mind not to put them at risk of heart attacks because they are usually prescribed these drugs for them to download the cholesterol in the blood for a very long time.
The so-called statin drugs are not without side effects. It can cause nausea, muscle aches, and sometimes damage the kidneys and liver.
But the long-term study found that the protection of the heart and followed 20,000 patients that there is no evidence that statins increase the risk of hardening of the blood vessels that lead to death Oardh for the development of cancer.
Said Richard Blbolj from the University of Oxford Clinical Trials Service Unit, which is one of the leaders of the study, that the continued use of the evidence for the use of medication for a long time was "registered and documented."
Outside experts agreed that the results were reassuring. Has indicated some previous studies on the possibility of cancer risk when using statins, although the analysis done by researchers in the United States three years ago and concluded that there was no causal link.
Wrote Payal Kohli and Christopher December Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a comment in the Lancet medical journal daily and results were published on the Internet "must be clarified what is worrying to feel comfortable, and physicians must be reassured about the safety in the long term of this treatment to save the lives of patients the risk of heart disease and blood vessels. "
The study showed the benefit of 40 milligrams per day of simvastatin.
Found a decrease of 23 percent in the incidence of heart attack, stroke and vascular disease after five years to continue taking the treatment, and this encouraged to continue for six more years to take the drug statin unchanged, and the results were similar in both groups of patients.
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