statin drug
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈstætɪn drʌg/
- Specialized
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medicamento estatina
- Statin drugs help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease.
- cholesterol-lowering statin drugs
- statin drugs lower
- take statin drugs
And that is taking a statin drug like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor.
- And that is taking a statin drug like Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor.
- And he said my doctor put me on a no fat diet and on a statin drug called Lipitor.
- They'll talk about, OK, a statin drug, hey, this decreases your risk of this one type of heart disease.
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While it's astonishing that most patients in Ornish's demanding program stick with it, studies show that two-thirds of patients who are prescribed statin drugs (which are highly effective at cutting cholesterol) stop taking them within one year.
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When it comes down to it, it was not just one experiment that was published showing that all the statin drugs, clofibrate, and gemfibrozil all stimulated cancer growth.
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Do you want to take a statin drug now?
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Still taking that statin drug?
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One of the clearest examples of me-too product generation can be seen in the statin drug market.
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CRP can be lowered through a variety of mechanisms, but the most common for Americans is through a statin drug to treat high cholesterol.
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Keep in mind, two of the most prescribed statin drugs, Lipitor and Zocor, are among the leading fifteen drugs for severe side effects in the FDA reporting system.
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I've had patients who refused to take statin drugs and ate a bowl of old-fashioned oats daily and lowered their cholesterol levels in 1-2 months.
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According to Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, in their book "Selling Sickness," the majority of "health experts" who created the new cholesterol guidelines in the U.S. have multiple financial ties to the pharmaceutical firms that make statin drugs.
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Many doctors recommend statin drugs to patients with high cholesterol.
Synonyms
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4.9
A medicine that lowers cholesterol in the blood and reduces the risk of heart attack
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4.1
A medicine taken by mouth that lowers cholesterol and fats in the blood
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5.8
A medicine taken by mouth to lower blood cholesterol and reduce heart attack risk
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5.5
A medicine that lowers cholesterol and blood fat to reduce heart disease risk
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6.1
A medicine that lowers cholesterol and other fats in the blood
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7.8
A medicine taken by mouth to lower blood cholesterol when diet does not help
A medicine that lowers cholesterol in the blood
A medicine that reduces fat, especially cholesterol, in the blood
A medicine taken as a pill that lowers cholesterol in the blood
A medicine taken by mouth to lower blood cholesterol
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'statin' names a class of cholesterol‑lowering medication and 'drug' denotes a medicine, so 'statin drug' simply identifies a drug of that class. This literal noun‑noun classification follows a common cross‑linguistic pattern, making the meaning immediately inferable to a learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The noun statin drug is named after the part -statin, from a root that means 'to stop'. These medicines 'stop' the body from making so much cholesterol, so statin drug means a medicine that helps 'lower cholesterol'.