Re: Statin drugs lower heart attack death-study


listener wrote:
> They aren't "talking" about it. They actually "did" it. And what's so
> surprising about it?
>
> "Patients who had not been prescribed statins in the past but were
> given one within 24 hours of hospitalization were 58 percent less
> likely to die." So, knowing that, if you ended up in the hosptial with an
> MI (god forbid) and they said "Here, take this statin" would you say to
> the doctor "No!please read Dr. Jay Cohen's book WHAT YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT
> STATIN DRUGS AND THEIR NATURAL ALTERNATIVES and this 80 page document put
> together by Sharon Hope. Thank you."
>
> L.
>
> "Bill" <xxx@xxxxx> wrote in
> news:GyMQe.359$sF6.326@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > They are talking about giving this right after an MI. Surprising.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > _______________________
> >
> >
> >
> > Statin drugs lower heart attack death-study
> > Mon Aug 29, 3:29 PM ET
> >
> > Giving a heart attack patient a statin drug right away reduces the
> > chance he or she will die by 50 percent, U.S. researchers said on
> > Monday.
> >
> > Statin drugs are used to lower cholesterol levels and prevent strokes
> > and heart attacks long-term, but the new study suggests that the drugs
> > might join aspirin as something to give to patients immediately when
> > they suffer a heart attack.
> >
> > "We've known that long-term statin therapy is beneficial, but this
> > study provides the strongest clinical evidence to date supporting the
> > early cardioprotective effects of statins immediately following a
> > heart attack," said cardiologist Dr. Gregg Fonarow of the University
> > of California, Los Angeles, who led the study.
> >
> > "As statins are already routinely started in myocardial infarction
> > patients prior to hospital discharge, it would be relatively easy to
> > administer this medication on arrival to the emergency department,"
> > Fonarow said in a statement.
> >
> > Fonarow and colleagues looked at the records of more than 170,000
> > heart attack patients.
> >
> > Those given statin drugs before hospitalization and within 24 hours
> > after a heart attack had a 54 percent lower risk of dying in the
> > hospital compared to patients not on statin therapy, they reported in
> > the September issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.
> >
> > Patients who had not been prescribed statins in the past but were
> > given one within 24 hours of hospitalization were 58 percent less
> > likely to die.
> >
> > "We were surprised that early statin therapy showed such a striking
> > effect immediately after a heart attack," Fonarow said. "We also found
> > that statins provided additional protection from other heart attack
> > complications as well."
> >
> > These complications included cardiac arrest, cardiac shock, cardiac
> > rupture and ventricular fibrillation.
> >
> > Statins lower cholesterol levels but they also affect the linings of
> > the blood vessels. They raise levels of nitric oxide, which in turn
> > may reduce the inflammation associated with heart attacks.
> >
> > The study was funded by Genentech Inc., which does not currently make
> > a statin drug but which helps support the registry of patients used
> > for the study, and Fonarow has done research for several companies
> > that make statins.



When to a recent surgery I had my chart annotated to say I was not to
be given statins. It was given the same flag as the pencillin warning.

I also made sure neither the surgeon or anesthetist for my surgical
procedure take statins.

Zee

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