Re: Statin drugs lower heart attack death-study


"listener" <listener@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.
>

Obviously what I meant is that they were talking about it in the article -
clearly the people that ran the study did the testing.

It is still surprising to me that the statin worked that quickly. The author
of the study was also surprised. I don't understand what the mechanism is.

Bill

> "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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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