Published in the New England Journal...even after statins have been stopped, the benefits of the therapy continue...BD
Scientists in the UK have found that the benefits to the heart from taking statin drugs may last for years and are sustained even after the drugs are stopped. A research team from Glasgow University in Scotland have found that men who took the statin drug pravastatin for five years had a lower risk of death or heart attack years after they stopped taking the drug. According to Ian Ford and his colleagues, taking statins for an average of five years provided an ongoing reduction in the risk of coronary events for an additional period of up to ten years. The Scottish team conducted a study of 6,595 middle-aged men, and found that the risk of heart attack or death from any type of heart disease was 11.8 percent for the pravastatin recipients, compared with 15.5 percent for volunteers who took a placebo for the first five years of the test.
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