Taking a 'Statin' Soon After Heart Attack Helpful
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Date: 12/03/04
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Date: 03 Dec 2004 13:29:20 GMT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Heart attack survivors might do well to begin
treatment with a statin drug -- such as Lipitor or Zocor -- as soon as
possible, a new study suggests.
Among patients treated for severe chest pain or a heart attack, those who
given statins within 24 hours fared significantly better than those who
were not given the drugs until later.
At the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center in Ann Arbor, Dr.
Debabrata Mukherjee and colleagues reviewed data on 1639 patients brought
to the emergency room with symptoms of a heart attack but who had not been
receiving prior statin therapy.
According to the researchers' report, which appears in the American Journal
of Cardiology, 1284 patients were treated with statins within 24 hours of
admission, while the remaining 355 received the drugs at a later time
point.
Patients in the early statin therapy group had a lower occurrence of death,
stroke, repeat heart attack, and heart failure during their hospital stay,
compared with patients in the delayed therapy group, the investigators
found.
They point out that current guidelines from the American College of
Cardiology and the American Heart Association (news - web sites) recommend
that statin therapy be started when the patient is discharged from the
hospital.
"Our study suggests that even earlier administration, less than 24 hours
after presentation, promotes favorable short-term outcomes" in patients
experiencing an acute cardiac event, the team states.
SOURCE: American Journal of Cardiology, November 1, 2004.
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