Lipitor may cut hospitalizations for heart failure
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NEW YORK  - For people with coronary artery disease, treatment with high doses of Lipitor (generic name, atorvastatin) may reduce their odds of having to be hospitalized for heart failure, according to a new report. However, this benefit is largely confined to individuals with a history of heart failure.
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Although obesity is usually linked to detrimental health consequences, new research indicates that overweight people with heart failure have a lower mortality risk than those of normal weight.
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TUESDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- There are clear medical benefits for prescribing cholesterol-reducing statin drugs for people who don't have cardiovascular disease but are at moderate risk of heart attack, stroke or other events, new research indicates.
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TUESDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. Medicaid patients are less likely than patients with HMOs or private health insurance to receive recommended cardiac care, say researchers who analyzed data on more than 96,000 patients at 521 hospitals across the country.
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Some drugs that drop blood pressure can  help prevent heart disease from getting worse in patients with  lower blood pressure who would not routinely be given such  medicine, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - New research suggests that all patients who undergo angioplasty should receive cholesterol-lowering &quot;statin&quot; drugs, such as Zocor and Lipitor (news - web sites).
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NEW YORK  - Adding the drugs isosorbide  dinitrate and hydralazine to conventional therapy for advanced  heart failure increases survival and improves quality of life  in black patients, according to results of the African-American  Heart Failure Trial (dubbed A-HeFT).
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NEW YORK  - The use of cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs, such as Lipitor (atorvastatin) and Zocor (simvastatin), may raise the risk of brain hemorrhage in patients who have experienced a recent stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA), new research suggests. Still, this risk may be outweighed by the ability of these agents to lower the overall risk of a second stroke and other serious events, such as heart attack.
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A small study in which Alzheimer&#39;s patients were given the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor found that their mental capacity stabilized or improved over the course of a year.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - Giving consumers access to  cholesterol-lowering drugs without a prescription could expand  use of the medicines and help fight the U.S. heart disease  epidemic, drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. told an advisory panel on  Thursday.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A fixed-dose combination of two rarely used heart drugs cut death rates among black heart-failure patients almost in half, researchers reported Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Treatment with a statin drug --  such as Lipitor or Zocor -- significantly reduces the risk of  cardiac and non-cardiac death in people on hemodialysis,  investigators report.
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Statin drugs proven to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of heart disease. Statins may also help slow down the AIDS virus.
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People suffering from the most common form of diabetes could sharply cut their risk for heart attacks and strokes by taking a cholesterol-lowering drug even if they have normal cholesterol levels, a major new study says.
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Obese heart attack and angina patients are more likely to survive after treatment, research suggests.
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Two studies finding that lowering a protein called CRP may be beneficial in patients with severe heart disease raise questions about how to use that information.
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NEW YORK  - People with heart disease who don't take their medications as prescribed risk suffering a heart attack or other heart-related event, a new study shows.