Statins News From Medical News TodayLatest Statins News From Medical News Today.The Influence Of Statin Medications On PSA Velocity In Healthy Men- June 30, 2008 ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Data is emerging about use of statins and risk reduction in development of prostate cancer (CaP). How do statins affect PSA The authors previously observed that PSA levels decreased upon initiation of statin medications. In this report Hamilton and colleagues examined influence of statin drugs on PSA velocity in healthy men.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113267.php Spending On Cholesterol Reducing Statins More Than Doubles In Just Five Years, USA- June 25, 2008 Spending on statins, drugs used to reduce artery-clogging cholesterol, increased 156 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to the latest News and Numbers from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Statins can reduce a person's risk of heart attack or stroke by lowering "bad" cholesterol and triglycerides, another fatty substance in the blood, and raising "good" cholesterol levels.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/112753.php A Retrospective Analysis Of The Effect Of Statin Use On The Efficacy Of BCG Treatment For TCC Of The Bladder- June 19, 2008 ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - BCG is an effective immunotherapy for carcinoma in situ of the bladder and it reduces recurrences from resected papillary TCC of the bladder. Many patients undergoing BCG therapy are concurrently taking oral statin agents, which have known immunomodulatory properties which may alter the performance of BCG. Some data has suggested that patients concurrently taking a statin while undergoing BCG therapy have reduced clinical efficacy.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111871.php Gene Variation May Be Responsible For Lack Of Response By Some To Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs- June 18, 2008 A variation in the way the body processes a single protein may explain why some people don't respond well to drugs that lower "bad" cholesterol, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The gene variation, called alternative splicing, explained 9 percent of the drugs' decreased power to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) in study participants compared to people with the standard processing pathway.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/111611.php Coronary Disease: A New Perspective Thanks To Ultrasound- June 6, 2008 Compared to other techniques, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is much better at monitoring the increase or decrease of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries. Can the method even be used to predict the odds of a heart attack or other cardiovascular event Studies indicate this may be the case, states Professor Clemens von Birgelen in his inaugural address at the University of Twente.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/110143.php Side Effects Of Sunitinib In Kidney Cancer Are 2 To 3 Times More Expensive To Manage Than Those Of Avastin Plus Interferon- June 2, 2008 Data presented at the largest oncology meeting in the world, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), shows that the costs of managing side effects in patients with metastatic renal cell cancer (mRCC) treated with sunitinib (Sutent(R)) are two to three times greater than if they were treated with the combination of Avastin and interferon (IFN), a combination which provides comparable patient efficacy to sunitinib.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/109385.php |