Browse by Tags

• arteries
• crestor
• dna damage
• Heart attack

• Crestor did it

  In an 18,000-patient trial, the AstraZeneca statin proved dramatically effective at cutting the risk of heart attack and death among patients who seemed healthy but showed high levels of C-reactive protein, or CRP. The risk of a "hard cardiac event" Read More...
  Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 3:48 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Heart disease, Heart attack, Statins, crestor

• Statins slow blood vessel aging

  New research suggests that statins may slow down the aging of blood vessels by boosting levels of a protein involved in the repair of DNA damage. Previous research has shown that patients with severe heart disease have arteries that are biologically as Read More...
  Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:11 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Heart disease, Statins, arteries, dna damage