Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease - BMJ

Statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease


"The reason why statin treatment may result in cancer is probably not an effect of the drug, but that low cholesterol predisposes to cancer. Thus, nine cohort studies including more than 140 000 individuals found that cancer was inversely associated with cholesterol measured 10–30 years earlier, and the association persisted after exclusion of cancer cases appearing during the first 4 year."

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