Re: Statin drugs lower heart attack death-study


"fresh~horses" <fresh~horses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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.

A new implementation of "Death before dishonor." LOL
>
> Zee

Steve
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