Statins seen beneficial for nearly all diabetics
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Statins -- the best-selling class of  cholesterol-fighting drugs -- should be considered as standard  therapy for all diabetics, apart from children and pregnant  women, researchers said on Friday.
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BusinessWeek Online - The news last week that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s  popular diabetes drug Avandia may increase the risk of heart attacks is now causing a rift among doctors by specialty, leading to charges by each side that the other is endangering patients. Endocrinologists, who treat diabetics, tend to regard the data, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with skepticism, pointing to weaknesses in the study, particularly when compared to more rigorous clinical trials. Cardiologists and drug safety experts, foremost among them study author Dr. ...
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There are some Indications that statins arenât all theyâre cracked up to be.
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A long-acting niacin drug that  raises so-called good cholesterol showed promise in slowing the  clogging of arteries when taken along with cholesterol-lowering  statins compared to statin therapy alone, according to a small  clinical study.
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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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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Pfizer Inc.&#39;s Lipitor cholesterol reducer, the world&#39;s top-selling drug, cut heart attacks and strokes by more than a third for diabetics who didn&#39;t start out with high levels of so-called bad cholesterol, the British medical ...
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NEW YORK  - There is some evidence that  various types of drugs used to treat high blood pressure could  hasten or impede the development of type 2 diabetes, but the  latest findings don't support that idea.
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A GlaxoSmithKline  blood pressure  medicine proved significantly better in keeping blood sugar  levels from rising in diabetics than another widely used member  of the beta blocker family of hypertension drugs, according to  a large clinical trial.
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New research suggests that all patients who undergo angioplasty should receive cholesterol-lowering "statin" drugs, such as Zocor and Lipitor.
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Those patients also showed healthier cholesterol levels and glucose tolerance. Most of the fat loss was from the waistline. Metabolic Pharmaceuticals Ltd of Australia did the study.
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Statins, drugs commonly prescribed to treat cardiovascular disease, may also protect people from developing the tangles of nerve fibers found in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, according to a study that examined the brains of 110 deceased Group Health Cooperative members.
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Older, cheaper diabetes drugs are as safe and effective as newer ones, concludes an analysis that is good news for diabetics and may further hurt sales of Avandia, a blockbuster pill recently tied to heart problems.
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Statins, which are used to treat high cholesterol, may also fight HIV, a study suggests.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- An easy-to-follow guide can boost the number of diabetes patients who take their cholesterol-lowering statin medications as prescribed, according to a new Mayo Clinic-led study.
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A new study suggests that popular cholesterol-lowering drugs like Lipitor may help not just the heart, but the brain as well
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NEW YORK  - For people with type 2 diabetes and moderately elevated blood glucose levels, the medication vildagliptin, sold under the brand name Galvus, can produce long-term improvements in the functioning of the insulin-secreting beta cells in the pancreas along with better glucose control, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - For people with low levels of  "good" (HDL) cholesterol and coronary disease, treatment aimed  at increasing HDL levels is worthwhile, researchers report.