Hits & Myths - Addressing Patients’ Concerns About Statins
Published on Feb 10, 2015Alberta Pharmacists and Family Physicians come together to highlight the evidence in response to some common concerns patients have about statin therapy.
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Evidence on Prescribing Statins - The Bottom Line
Published on Feb 10, 2015When should you prescribe statins? Should they be used in elderly patients? If a patient’s CK is elevated, should the statin be stopped? Get the “bottom line” evidence to these and other statin prescription scenarios.
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Side Effects of Taking Statins
Published on May 5, 2014About 20% of adults over 45 are taking a statin medication. But should they be...and are they all benefitting from it?
We talked to an expert to find out, and we're bringing you the bottom line on what everybody should know about taking statin medications.
Hi, I'm Pilar Gerasimo with a Bottom Line Expert report on some of the dangerous side effects associated with a Class of cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins. I'm here with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, the director of Women's Heart Health at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
I've heard that statins have been described by some experts as the most dangerous drug on the market. I've heard also that about one in four adults over 45 are currently taking them. So it strikes me that there must be some either very underpublicized risks associated with statins...or we're just not getting the whole story.
Every medication has a risk and a benefit. If the risks or side effects outweigh the benefits, that makes the drug dangerous. There have been a lot of people who do not need statins who have been given them, and that makes this drug dangerous for those people.
What are some of the side effects associated with statins?
One of the most common side effects is muscle aches or body aches, joint pain, oftentimes people feel them in their legs. Some other side effects are elevated liver tests, which could be a problem, but once the statins are stopped, usually those enzymes or liver tests come down. There could be kidney abnormalities if doses of statins are too high. Some people describe fog brain, really sort of this inability to think, and again, when the statin is stopped, these symptoms go away. But those are the most common things we see in people taking statins.
What about the special risks for women taking statins? I've heard that particularly with healthy women, taking statins can increase their risk for diabetes.
I'm glad you asked that question, because the headline said "Statins Lead to Diabetes in Women," but in that particular study, it looked at women who were at risk for diabetes in the first place. They were given statins, and over time, their diabetes developed. Healthy women shouldn't be taking statins in the first place, but if they are, they're not at risk for diabetes.
Wasn't there also a recent study that showed there are actually more people being harmed by taking statins unnecessarily than people without preexisting conditions that were being saved by them? I mean, are millions of people just wasting their money and increasing their risk at the same time?
There are many people taking statins who really don't need to be on them, but we know for sure that for people who have had a heart attack or heart disease or stents, statins are lifesaving. If you're at intermediate risk for heart disease and have risk factors—high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, family history, sedentary lifestyle, stress—and you fit into this category, then a statin should be considered. Short of that, it's not for you.
The bottom line on statins—they're not right for everyone, particularly if you don't have more than one risk factor. And they can carry some pretty serious side effects. So to be on the safe side, it's best to check with your doctor and make sure that statins are right for you. For more advice on a healthier life, go to BottomLineHealth.com.
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How to Stop Taking Statins -- Dr. Mark Hackman -- UHC TV
Published on May 21, 2014http://www.uhc.tv Men's health expert Dr. Mark Hackman responds to a question about stopping statins and shares tips on lowering your cholesterol without medication. To ask one of our experts a question, visit http://www.uhc.tv/channel/expert-alley.
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Mayo Clinic Study on Statins and Stroke
Uploaded on Feb 24, 2009Mayo Clinic researchers have shown that patients who were taking statins before a stroke experienced better outcomes and recovery than patients who weren't on the drug, even when their cholesterol levels were ideal. That finding is reported in the current issue of the Journal of Stoke and Cerebrovascular Diseases.
Wyatt Decker, M.D. discusses the study and its findings.
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How Statin Medications Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke
Uploaded on Aug 30, 2009Patient Mentoring Series: One of the reasons why we are able to achieve high treatment success rate and low event rate is our patient's adherance of treatment program. Patient mentoring using simple graphics and animations can help patient comprehend the nature of their disease, how the medcations work and what are the expected beneficial outcomes.
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ASA: Statins and Stents Find New Roles in Stroke Prevention and Treatment (part one)
Uploaded on Feb 23, 2009http://www.medpagetoday.com
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 -- From statins for stroke prevention to experimental self-expanding stents for treatment of embolic stroke, cutting edge therapies are the focus of this exclusive research highlights roundtable. One such therapy, said Philip Gorelick, M.D., director of the Center for Stroke Research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, is catheter-delivery of tPA for treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage.
While at first glance that seems counterintuitive, Dr. Gorelick, a former chairman of the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference, said it has demonstrated promising preliminary results.
Dr. Gorelick was joined in the discussion by Cheryl Bushnell, M.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest University Health Sciences Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dr. Bushnell, who is a member of the planning committee for this year's meeting, said the news that aggressive statin therapy appears to be effective for primary prevention of stroke has raised considerable discussion, but she cautioned that it is too soon to recommend universal statin therapy.
Peggy Peck, MedPage Today executive editor, moderated the discussion.
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ASA: Statins and Stents Find New Roles in Stroke Prevention and Treatment (part two)
Uploaded on Feb 23, 2009http://www.medpagetoday.com
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 -- From statins for stroke prevention to experimental self-expanding stents for treatment of embolic stroke, cutting edge therapies are the focus of this exclusive research highlights roundtable. One such therapy, said Philip Gorelick, M.D., director of the Center for Stroke Research at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, is catheter-delivery of tPA for treatment of intraventricular hemorrhage.
While at first glance that seems counterintuitive, Dr. Gorelick, a former chairman of the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference, said it has demonstrated promising preliminary results.
Dr. Gorelick was joined in the discussion by Cheryl Bushnell, M.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest University Health Sciences Center in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dr. Bushnell, who is a member of the planning committee for this year's meeting, said the news that aggressive statin therapy appears to be effective for primary prevention of stroke has raised considerable discussion, but she cautioned that it is too soon to recommend universal statin therapy.
Peggy Peck, MedPage Today executive editor, moderated the discussion.
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J-STARS--Statin Treatment for Recurrent Stroke Prevention
Published on Feb 13, 2015Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, program vice chair for the International Stroke Conference 2015, interviews Masayasu Matsamoto, MD, principle investigator for J-STARS about the results he presented during the meeting.
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Statins, Muscle Pain and Your Health | Dr. Marc McDade
Published on Jun 21, 2013Research on statins (cholesterol lowering medication) has failed to show significant reduction in heart attack rates. However research into the use of statins has been connected with several serious side effects such as Vitamin D deficiency, depression, and loss of sex drive just to name a few. Even with this information the use of statins is sky rocketing. A new study shows that the average person has a significant increase in muscle pain, joint pain and increased likely hood of injuries.
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