statin therapy
Statin therapy for the octogenarian?
... that statin prescription declines with age and is lowest in the oldest patients with the highest cardiovascular ...low statin utilisation in the elderly include safety concerns, doubts about the utility of ...
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Study of liver function abnormalities during statin therapy in a tertiary care center
... Table 1 and 2 , Chart 1 and 2 shows that both groups had similar liver function parameters at induction of statin therapy and after 6 months of treatment. Atorvastatin group had incidence of 4% elevation of ...
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Effects of statin therapy on chronic kidney disease patients with coronary artery disease
... long-term statin treatment in CKD and CAD + CKD patients in ...long-term statin therapy can significantly improve the clinical outcomes of the CAD + CKD patients, the treatment effect of statins was ...
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Dose-dependent Effect of Statin Therapy on Circulating CXCL12 Levels in Patients with Hyperlipidemia
... on statin therapy (48 on low-dose, defined as <10mg atorvastatin-equivalent, and 120 on high-dose, defined as ≥ 10mg atorvastatin-equivalent dose) and 11 subjects from the same database who had a history ...
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Perioperative statin therapy in cardiac surgery: a meta analysis of randomized controlled trials
... According to high-quality evidence, there is no signifi- cant difference in the postoperative incidence of AF. On the other hand, we found conflicting results when includ- ing trials with higher risk of bias, but this ...
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Statin Therapy Does Not Affect the Radiographic and Clinical Profile of Patients with TIA and Minor Stroke
... prior statin therapy were older and more hypertensive, treated with aspirin, and more likely to have symptomatic carotid disease compared with those not on ...prior statin treatment was not ...
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Concordance to Guideline-recommended Statin Therapy: Real-world Evidence from India
... four statin benefit groups for the primary and secondary prevention of ASCVD, namely patients with (1) clinical ASCVD, (2) LDL-C ≥190 mg/dL, (3) diabetes and LDL-C 70-189 mg/dL, and (4) estimated 10-year ASCVD ...
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Hemodynamic effects of peri-operative statin therapy in on-pump cardiac surgery patients
... Perioperative statin therapy can influence the post- operative outcome of patients with cardiopulmonary bypass. Meanwhile the effect of statins on peri-operative hemodynamic parameters has not been studied ...
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Statin therapy causes gut dysbiosis in mice through a PXR-dependent mechanism
... by statin therapy (Additional file 1: Figure ...hand, statin-mediated transactivation of Slco1b2 and Pparα was abolished in the absence of ...
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Effect of statin therapy on vaspin levels in type 2 diabetic patients
... A total of 62 patients with diabetes were recruited, and randomly assigned to receive simvastatin 20 mg/day (study group, n = 33) or no statin therapy (control group, n = 29). A customized questionnaire was ...
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Statin therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment and effect of statin potency
... combination therapy should be used to lower LDL-C to the target level, but rosuvastatin and atorvastatin are not included in the ...to statin therapy for ACS patients, which impacts on LDL-C outcomes ...
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Review Article Association between ezetimibe in combination with statin therapy and cancer risk: a meta-analysis
... long-term statin therapy in prevention of com- mon cancers [1, 2], plenty of patients remain susceptible to a cancer particularly in popula- tions with high cholesterol for ages, and in which intensive ...
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Intensive versus standard dose statin therapy: the costs and benefits for patients with acute coronary syndrome
... The key drivers of cost effectiveness of intensive versus standard dose statins are the relative risk for mortality and, to a lesser extent, the cohort starting age and assumptions on utility. The results are ...
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Statin therapy reduces oxidized low density lipoprotein level, a risk factor for stroke outcome
... score, statin therapy, platelet count, serum LDL-cholesterol, hs-CRP and serial Ox-LDL levels were significantly different between the good- and poor-outcome ...
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Effect of statin therapy on mortality from infection and sepsis: a meta analysis of randomized and observational studies
... continued statin therapy may be associated with a significant special biological effect in critically ill patients with ...prior statin therapy ...current statin users and former ...
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Impact of prior statin therapy on the outcome of patients with suspected ventilator associated pneumonia: an observational study
... on statin therapy present with a critical illness requiring treatment in an ICU, notably because of toxicity ...continued statin therapy and those who did not after admission to the ...
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Statin therapy in critical illness : an international survey of intensive care physicians' opinions, attitudes and practice
... for gram positive bacterial infection pathogenesis and are considered potentially modifiable with statin therapy [20]. Statins could potentially improve bacterial clear- ance by neutrophils and macrophages ...
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Statin therapy for preventing cardiovascular diseases in patients treated with tacrolimus after kidney transplantation
... we could not evaluate confounding factors such as diet, life style, and smoking status because of the retrospective study design. Third, we could only examine the incidence of MACE for 5 years after KT, but the possible ...
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Intensified low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol target of statin therapy and cancer risk: a meta-analysis
... of statin therapy on cancer inci- dence in adult patients, we searched potentially eligible studies in the electronic databases PUBMED, EMBASE, and Cochrane as of September ...
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Effects of generic substitution on refill adherence to statin therapy: a nationwide population based study
... Studies investigating whether generic medication and generic substitution affect refill adherence report that adherence is higher among patients who start treatment with generics, compared to those who start with brand- ...
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