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(Medical-NewsWire.com, June 10, 2013 ) Redding, CA -- The promotion of Cholesterol-lowering statins has grown for some time as the drugs become more popular in use. However, now there is equally heavy pushes for the medication used for heart patients to be put up for questioning.
Statins such as Lipitor, Crestor, and Zocor (and their respective generics) are among the most widely used prescription drugs, due especially to baby-boomers reaching senior age.
Ever since the drugs hit the market 30 years prior, the U.S. Utilized them for preventing heart attacks and strokes for those who have already experienced one. There has now been a shift in the recent decade however, wherein individuals are are otherwise healthy are being prescribed the medications.
"These are patients who really haven't had an event, a cardiovascular event, but they seem to be at high risk," said pharmacy Prof. Muhammad Mamdani, who works at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
"You also get populations where people seem to be relatively healthy, their cholesterol levels aren't that high, but for whatever reason, they are placed on a statin. That's a patient population that is a lot more debatable and some practices may not be warranted."
A debate is now forming within the medical community regarding the positive and negative attributes and effects caused by such use. There are more independent studies coming out about possible side effects that sometimes conflict from study to study. A study from JAMA Internal Medicine suggested that the use of statins could be associated with musculoskeletal conditions, as well as pain. The findings pointed to the possibility being more pronounced in more active individuals.
"If you look at all the studies that have ever been done with statins for primary prevention, so for people who have never had a heart attack or a stroke, if you give a statin to a patient for about five years we can reduce the chance of a person having a heart attack or a stroke by about one per cent," said James McCormack, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of British Columbia.
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