Statins won’t work for half of all patients
Doctors call for tailored treatments
SO that’ll be the two guesses Anais Gallagher is giving as she asks us to name the “icon of music” she dressed up as for a fancy dress party.
The model, 19, was definitely maybe paying tribute to her 51-year-old dad Noel – the way he looked when Oasis became icons of Britpop in 1996. Noel in New York in 1996
Anais with her dad Noel in 2015 165,000 British patients shows that 51% missed this target. Over a six year followup period, 23,000 developed cardiovascular disease. Those who did not meet the 40% reduction target were 22% more likely to get the disease, the Nottingham University study found.
Prof Metin Avkiran, of the British Heart Foundation, said work needs to be done to find out why some people do not respond to the medication. He said: “It may be these people have been prescribed low dose or low potency statins, they are not taking the medication WARNINGS Statin tablets as prescribed or they are not responding to the type of statins they have been prescribed.” STATINS don’t work for half of people taking them, research reveals.
The biggest study of its kind shows 51% of patients fail to hit healthy cholesterol targets after two years.
Scientists warn personalised advice and treatment is needed alongside the pills to cut strokes and heart attacks.
Around six million adults in the UK take statins, which lower bad cholesterol levels, preventing the build-up of fatty deposits in blood vessels.
This bad cholesterol should be reduced by 40% within two years of starting the pills, health regulator NICE says.
But data from 681 family doctors on