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   Are statin use and harm underestimated?

   • Current guidelines may underestimate statin use and 10-year risks for cardiovascular disease, and the level of risk at which net benefit occurs varies considerably by age, sex, and statin type.

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   What are the side effects of statins?

   • For example, one side effect of statins, the most commonly prescribed drugs for lowering cholesterol, is muscle pain.

   Cutting Cholesterol-Lowering Medicine in Half: Do or Don’t?

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   Are Statins safe to split?

   • “Most statins are safe to split as long as they do not come in a capsule, special coating, or extended-release formulation,” Dr. Leung says. For example, some statins and other classes of drugs have a coating that serves as a delivery mechanism. Sign up for our weekly Heart Health Newsletter. Your privacy is important to us.

   Cutting Cholesterol-Lowering Medicine in Half: Do or Don’t?

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   What happens if you cut a statin in half?

   • “If a patient develops muscle pains, they can easily cut their pill in half so that we can see if they can tolerate that dosage,” Dr. Hmoud says. If that doesn’t work, he continues, he’ll switch his patient to another statin or to a different type of cholesterol-lowering medication.

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   Who can use statins?

   • This article is intended for cardiologists, diabetologists/endocrinologists, family medicine/primary care practitioners, internists, nurses, public health and prevention officials, pulmonologists, pharmacists, and other members of the healthcare team who treat and manage patients using statins.

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   5 days ago · The health service says you can lower your cholesterol by eating healthily and getting more exercise. Some people also need to take medicine such as statins. The NHS adds: “Too much cholesterol ...

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   5 days ago · Current guidelines may underestimate statin use and 10-year risks for cardiovascular disease, and the level of risk at which net benefit occurs varies considerably by age, sex, and statin type.

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   4 days ago · Can You Split Your Cholesterol-Lowering Pills in Half? Discover when your doctor might recommend splitting a statin or other drug for high cholesterol, plus how to safely do it.

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   5 days ago · Statins would also increase incident diabetes, myopathy, and rhabdomyolysis. Overall, lifetime statin treatment would have a high probability of increasing quality-of-life-adjusted survival in people regardless of their cardiovascular disease history or LDL levels. Sensitivity analyses found this cost-effectiveness result to be robust.

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    4 days ago · Although the most prominent effects attributable to statin therapy are its potent low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering properties, it is also well established that statins significantly reduce non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), and biomarkers of inflammation, most notably C-reactive protein ...