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Article: Stopping statins may cause rebound that triples risk of death.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- April 7, 2002
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2002 APR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Heart disease patients who discontinue using cholesterol-lowering drugs while they were hospitalized for chest pain have triple the risk of death or heart attack as people who keep taking their medicine, say researchers in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"The message to physicians is: don't stop statins," said Christian W. Hamm, MD, one of the study authors. "Withdrawal of statin therapy shortly after the onset of symptoms completely eliminated the protective effect of statins in coronary heart disease patients hospitalized with severe chest pain."
Hamm is director of cardiology at the ...
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