Does Lipitor Reduce Heart Attack Risk
Study: Switching from Lipitor to Zocor boosts heart risk
October 03, 2008
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Health Guide
Heart Attack and Acute Coronary Syndrome: Medications
...clot-busting or fibrinolytic, drugs are now mainstays in the early treatment of many patients with heart attacks. These drugs dissolve the clot, or thrombus, responsible for causing artery... Read more »Lowering Cholesterol for Patients
...it's time to take action. Lowering your total cholesterol levels can reduce your chance of suffering a heart attack or stroke, or dying of heart disease. If you already had a heart attack, keeping... Read more »Peripheral Artery Disease and Intermittent Claudication: Reducing Heart Risk Factors
...(Zocor)Fluvastatin (Lescol)Atorvastatin (Lipitor)Rosuvastatin (Crestor) Statins reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Evidence now strongly suggests that statins have specific benefits for... Read more »Cholesterol Treatment and Drugs
...LDL cholesterol of 100 mg/dL)LDL cholesterol is greater than 70 mg/dL AND patient has had a recent heart attack or has known heart disease along with diabetes, current cigarette smoking, poorly... Read more »Type 2 Diabetes: Highlights
...pressure, according to results from the 2005 Antihypertensive and Lipid Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT). However, ACE inhibitors and angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARBs)... Read more »
Medications
...if you are overweight. To help reduce your risk of heart attacks and strokes, check your blood... Read more »
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Study: Lipitor ads may mislead women
September 25, 2008Researchers say that though the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor has long been marketed to both men and women, they have been unable to find... Read summary »
FDA approves Lipitor for new uses
October 02, 2008The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Lipitor for new uses. The cholesterol-lowering med can now be used to reduce the risk of non-fatal... Read summary »
Recent heart-attack patients benefit from Lipitor
October 02, 2008A new analysis of a previous clinical study has found that Lipitor is more effective than Zocor in helping recent heart-attack patients cut their... Read summary »
Patients risk heart attacks when they stop taking statins
October 02, 2008According to a new study, people who have high cholesterol and stop taking statins increase their risk of having a heart attack by 30 percent. People... Read summary »
Lipitor, Norvasc cut heart-attack risk within 90 days, study finds
October 02, 2008People who take newer cholesterol and blood-pressure medicines may cut their risk of having a heart attack within 90 days of starting the drugs, a... Read summary »
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