Study Says High Doses of Statin can Save Lives

Researchers found that higher intake of statin treatment may cut heart attacks and death rates among patients.

On the study made by the UK and Australian researchers discovered that increasing the doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs may prevent patients for deadly heart attacks and deaths by almost 13 percent.

The study report is published in the Lancet Medical journal.

However, experts warned that taking bigger doses of the well-known statin positively increase numerous cases of side effects.

Statins are use to reduce the high levels of bad LDL cholesterol in the body, these kinds of bad cholesterols more likely to get patients at risk of acquiring strokes and heart attacks that are commonly the cause of deaths among patients.

There are two million people in the UK estimated to be prescribed by statins, where in there is an available over-the-counter medicine at pharmacies to patients who are assessed to have a moderate type of cardiovascular risk.

In some studies, researchers suggested that there are greater benefits that patients may gain in taking bigger amount of doses been prescribed by their doctors.

Two studies took place at the universities of Sydney and Oxford, in order to give a more reliable and certain result, they carried dozens of trials to take significant result.

In the first clinical study, experts compared a standard statin regime to an intensive regime, and found significant drops of LDL cholesterol levels with their subjects.

In their study they have unleashed that there was a 15 percent reduction in major vascular events that includes 13 percent reduction in fatal and non-fatal heart attacks, 19 percent less the risk of taking heart disease operation and treatments and 16percent reduction in the number of strokes.

Professor Bernard Cheung together with Professor Karen Lam, from the University of Hong Kong, stated that people who have the potential risk of acquiring stroke and heart attacks needed to take and intensive statin treatment.

They added that even those people who have a low LDL cholesterol may benefits on the treatment.

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