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Statins may help prevent stroke
December 11, 2009
Statins may help prevent stroke
Greek researchers have shown that the appointment of statin patients discharged from hospital after the first stroke reduces the risk of recurrence of stroke within 10 years and improves survival.
Sotirios Giannopoulos (University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece) and colleagues conducted a retrospective analysis 794 patients who had the first stroke, in which data were available 10 years of observation. Within 10 years, 14.1% of patients developed recurrent stroke, and 28,2% – have died. After being discharged from hospital 23% of patients were assigned to one or another statin, and 77% did not receive statins. Patients treated with statins, the frequency of relapses was significantly lower than in patients not taking statins (7.6% and 16,3%).
Regressinny analysis showed that statins reduced the risk of recurrence of stroke by 15%. In addition, patients taking statins, the risk of death within 10 years after th
Statins reduce the risk of first or recurrent stroke
October 19, 2009
Statins reduce the risk of first or recurrent stroke
Results of large-scale meta-analysis indicate that the use of statins reduces the risk of both first and recurrent stroke.
Pierre Amarenco, and Julien Labreuche (Hemostasis, Bio-engineering, and Cardiovascular Remodeling Unit at INSERM in Paris, France) performed a meta-analysis study of stainov, it included 24 studies with a total of 165 792 participants.
In a meta-analysis showed that lowering LDL cholesterol by 1 mmol / L reduces the risk of stroke by 21.1%. Only one study examined the effectiveness of statins for secondary prevention of stroke, found that patients who took statins, the risk of recurrent stroke was 0.84.
Lancet Neurol 2009