Even with life-limiting illness, over a third of these U.S nursing home residents were on some form of oral statin medication as of September 2016. While statin use varied by life-limiting illness ...

(HealthDay)—For nursing home (NH) residents with dementia taking statins, most continue statins with the progression to advanced dementia, according to research published in the November issue of the ...

HealthDay News — Statin prescribing is considerable among nursing home residents, with significant variation in prescribing seen across physicians, according to a study published online August 9 in ...

High dose statins given over a week could be used to successfully treat older patients admitted to hospital with a severe type of pneumonia, according to UK researchers. They said their findings, if ...

Recent evidence has shown that the statins, a class of drugs originally designed to manage cardiovascular disorders by lowering cholesterol might, in part, mediate their protective effects by reducing ...

Long term use of statins is associated with a 30% heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes in susceptible individuals, suggests a large study from the US. The trend held true irrespective of ...

But don’t be scared — statins cause hardly any of the side effects listed in these warnings, a new evidence review says. Taking a statin didn’t cause any meaningful increase in memory loss, dementia, ...

Kingston University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Few medicines have sparked as much debate as statins. Cardiologists often describe them as life-saving, while some patients ...

Statins are the most widely prescribed, cholesterol-lowering drugs in the world. Despite the expiration of their patents, revenue for statins is expected to rise, with total sales on track to reach an ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk was reduced by 1.2% in the intention-to-treat analysis and 5% in the per protocol analysis for adults aged 75 and older. The study looked at 2 main age groups: 75 to ...