{"id":6020,"date":"2015-01-23T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.protrainings.eu\/?p=6020"},"modified":"2015-01-23T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T10:09:30","slug":"statins-slash-risk-of-heart-disease-or-stroke-for-women-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protrainings.uk\/blog\/statins-slash-risk-of-heart-disease-or-stroke-for-women-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Statins slash risk of heart disease or stroke for women, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Offering<\/a>A review of data from 27 trials featuring 46,675 female and 127,474 male patients found the treatment slashed their risk of heart\u00a0disease<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or stroke. \u00a0Around 600,000\u00a0women<\/span><\/a>\u00a0die from the conditions every year. But the review found statins, which work by lowering so-called \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol, cut the risk of death for both sexes.<\/p>\n

Peter Weissberg, medical director at the British Heart Foundation, which helped fund the study, said: \u201cBeyond any reasonable doubt, women gain the same benefits from statins as men.<\/p>\n

Far too few women realise they are at more risk of a heart attack than from breast cancer and this study should reassure them that, if advised by their doctor, they can reduce that risk by taking a statin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin Baigent, of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at Oxford University, said: \u201cHeart attacks and stroke are prob- lems in women just as they are in men. Many women at increased risk of such cardiovascular disease could avoid them by taking a statin.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research in The Lancet showed even low-risk patients, those with less than a 10 per cent chance of heart attack or stroke, could benefit.<\/p>\n

For more information see the Daily Express website on the below link.<\/p>\n

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