statin
any of a class of drugs that reduce the levels of lipids in the blood by altering the enzyme activity in the liver that produces lipids: used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
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Plus, a new study suggests statins can help hospitalized patients.
COVID cases are plaguing the Olympics even before they’ve begun | Lauren Leffer | July 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceFurther, they found statins were associated with about a 25 percent reduced risk of the most severe outcomes.
COVID cases are plaguing the Olympics even before they’ve begun | Lauren Leffer | July 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe FDA approved the first two PCSK9 inhibitors—alternatives to statins—in 2015.
One CRISPR Treatment Lowered Cholesterol in Monkeys by 60 Percent | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | May 26, 2021 | Singularity HubI think that we had a very unique cosmic shift in a universe where people are really looking for their purpose and they’re no longer looking to just go through the motion of being on Valiums and statins and going home every day being unhappy.
A Leading NYC Mayoral Candidate Thinks Roof Farms Can Save America’s Cities | Amanda Kludt | January 14, 2021 | EaterA meta-analysis involving 65,000 patients concluded that statins do not offer a mortality benefit to people without heart disease who use it as preventative medicine.
My cancer might be back—and I wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place | jakemeth | September 22, 2020 | Fortune
Yet another important barrier to addressing this issue is the implication for statin sales.
Was the calculator created only to pump up sales of the already multi-billion-dollar statin market?
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs routinely reach blockbuster status, selling more than $1 billion a year.
Doctors Should Start Advocating Dietary Options to Treat Heart Disease | Daniela Drake | July 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPeople with high cholesterol try statin after statin before finding the one that will work—if they ever do.
Three or four times he seems to be just on the point of statin' it to me but never can quite get a start.
Torchy and Vee | Sewell FordHe's in the house, an' wants you to answer Mrs. Fogarty, statin' feder you'll take a month's larnin' on the flure or not.
Fardorougha, The Miser | William CarletonMeanwhile Miss Leroy gets around to statin' the real reason why we're bein' honored.
The House of Torchy | Sewell FordI wuz only statin' the solemn facts and truth of the matter.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3. | Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)I'd want references from the folks he'd worked for, statin' that he was honest and capable and all that.
Shavings | Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for statin
/ (ˈstætɪn) /
any of a class of drugs, including atorvastatin and simvastatin, that lower the levels of low-density lipoproteins in the blood by inhibiting the activity of an enzyme involved in the production of cholesterol in the liver
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Scientific definitions for statin
[ stăt′n ]
Any of a class of drugs that inhibit a key enzyme involved in the synthesis of cholesterol and promote receptor binding of LDL-cholesterol, resulting in decreased levels of serum cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol and increased levels of HDL-cholesterol.
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