New gene silencer cholesterol drug can switch off heart disease savita thakur thakur20 March 2017 4:59 PM ISTWashington: A breakthrough 'gene silencer' drug has the power to 'switch off' heart disease by reducing cholesterol by over 50 percent.The findings...
No Evidence of Cognitive Issues When Evolocumab Added to Statin Therapy: ACC 2017 supriya kashyap kashyap29 March 2017 12:45 PM ISTWashington : There is no evidence that adding a new cholesterol-lowering drug to treatment with a statin causes memory loss or other problems with...
Adherence to High-Intensity Statin Drops-off For Many Following Heart Attack: JAMA supriya kashyap kashyap19 April 2017 12:02 PM ISTA substantial proportion of patients prescribed high-intensity statins following hospitalization for a heart attack did not continue taking this...
When to add another drug to statin supriya kashyap kashyap9 Oct 2017 11:30 AM ISTDetermining when to add nonstatin therapy. A quantitative approachDespite optimal statin therapy, patients may remain at increased risk of...
Higher HDL helps prevent AKI after Cardiac Surgery Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli31 Dec 2017 7:30 PM ISTDr.Loren E. Smith and associates conducted the first study to identify HDL as a novel and potentially modifiable risk factor for postoperative AKI and...
Rosuvastatin most peferred statin for hyperlipidaemia Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli16 Feb 2018 7:25 PM ISTStatins are one of the most commonly used medicine in preventing the progression of the heart attack and is used by all in the primary and secondary...
All Guidelines corroborate that Statins prevent cardiovascular events Anjali Nimesh Nimesh26 Feb 2018 7:27 PM ISTAccording to a research, different Guidelines recommend a different percentage of eligibility for statin use for primary prevention of atherosclerotic...
Which statin users are at greatest risk of T2D? Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli16 April 2018 8:30 PM ISTStatins have been known to increase the risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM); however, other factors, especially hypertension, are also...
Biologic Therapy for psoriasis reduces coronary plaques : Study Vinay Singh singh7 May 2018 7:45 PM ISTPsoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease related to inherited genes.The common therapy for the disease includes biologic agents like Tumor...
New JAS Guideline for Treatment and Diagnosis of Familial Hypercholesterolemia Medha Baranwal Baranwal23 Jun 2018 7:06 PM ISTThe Japan Atherosclerosis Society has released new guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). The guidelines are...
Initiating Statin therapy : What all to be considered Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli15 July 2018 7:04 PM ISTStatins are backbone for treatment of Dyslipedemia but before initiating Statins ,clinicians must first determine the patient’s risk of having a...
Statin exposure linked to idiopathic inflammatory myositis Medha Baranwal Baranwal4 Aug 2018 8:20 PM ISTThe use of statin medications is associated with the development of idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM), according to a case-control study in JAMA...
