statin
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈstætɪn/
- Specialized
:
estatina
- Doctors often prescribe statins to patients with high cholesterol to help reduce their heart disease risk.
- statin therapy
- take statins
- statins reduce
What makes this drug special is, unlike statins, this drug only works in the liver.
- What makes this drug special is, unlike statins, this drug only works in the liver.
- We have many pills that we're like, I'm taking a statin for cholesterol.
- And also, are statins problematic in any way?
- Let's talk about this new statin study and how it's another nail in the statin coffin.
- They found traces of antidepressant medications, chemotherapy drugs, you know, statins.
- So that's why, you know, I just rejected the idea of, you know, having statins for the rest of my life.
- And that's obviously very, very sad Today with the progression of, of statins, you know, these people are living much longer.
- The third side effect of statins, which again, not common but can't be ignored is insulin resistance.
- The first one is that statins actually have other properties other than lowering LDL cholesterol.
- So we can monitor how those four tests change if we lose weight and start exercising or if we start a statin.
- And he said my doctor put me on a no fat diet and on a statin drug called Lipitor.
- But that's the one that statins effects the small dense.
Examples
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Prescribing a statin is easy: getting someone to change their lifestyle is not.
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Our patient, Eric, is concerned that his aches and pains are brought on by his statin treatment.
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Unfortunately, it is not at all clear that taking a statin for primary prevention will do people any good.
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For comparison, those who manage to take their statin pills cut their risk by a third.
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Actually all the statins to some degree will raise your blood sugar.
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There is good evidence that statins lower the relative risk of cardiovascular events by 27%.
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Recent research has suggested that treatment with statins for individuals with moderate renal disease may slow disease progression.
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Despite these potential benefits, some patients decline or discontinue statins because of anticipated or experienced adverse effects.
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In patients with or without initial cognitive impairment, statins do not increase the risk for adverse cognitive effects.
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The first one is that statins actually have other properties other than lowering LDL cholesterol.
Synonyms
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4.1
A medicine that lowers cholesterol in the blood
A medicine that lowers cholesterol in the blood
A medicine that reduces fat, especially cholesterol, in the blood
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
statin = lovastatin (opaque) = stat + in
The term is a technical class name created by pharmaceutical naming patterns and is not transparently analyzable by an average learner from general English morphemes.
Etymology
Statin A helpful way to remember the word statin is to think of the part stat-, which suggests 'to stop', as in the English word static. So, statins are medicines that 'stop' the body from making too much cholesterol and so lower cholesterol levels.