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Breaking News - Statins May Help Reduce Asthma Hospitalizations

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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
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For some time, researchers have been looking at the anti-inflammatory effects of statins on asthma, which is an inflammatory disease of the airways. Statins are medicines that are designed to treat high cholesterol levels.   A number of studies are examining this relationship at present. But, ...
  1. Statins
    thp636
    Tuesday, April 07, 2009 at 05:44 PM

    Perhaps this will finally satisfy my wife. She is convinced that statins are terrible drugs and is always on me to discontinue my simvastatin. She supports her position with a lot of psuedo scientific web sites.

    I will be sure to show her your article.

     

    Thanks,

    Tom

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