You have learned here how metformin, ACE inhibitors like lisinopril, angiotensin receptor blockers like losartan, and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists like eplerenone slow aging and delay chronic disease development. Statins have the same effect.
I have confirmed CAD, but I have been refusing statins for 15 years due to the outcome stats for women (Irvine study), my own gene marker for statin myopathy (23Me), a disturbingly high correlation with diabetes and possibly dementia, and the shared skepticism/resistance of well respected academic physicians such as JAMA lead Rita Redberg. I have felt even better about that decision since this editorial of hers some years back. Your comments welcome: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/opinion/dont-give-more-patients-statins.html
There are 80,000 articles on statin therapy in Pubmed. The preponderance of evidence proves the risk benefit ratio of statin is one of the best in medicine. I have prescribed enough statin to fill a railroad boxcar. I have never seen a lasting side effect of a statin in all of those patients. In patients with coronary artery disease like you, optimal medical therapy at the Kaiser Collaborative Coronary Care Service that included a statin reduced mortality by 70-90%. I take 40 mg of atorvastatin a day. I have no side effects. I would not think of missing it. Statins are antioxidant, anti-inflammatory medications that are an essential part of optimal medical therapy protocols that prolong healthy life.
I have confirmed CAD, but I have been refusing statins for 15 years due to the outcome stats for women (Irvine study), my own gene marker for statin myopathy (23Me), a disturbingly high correlation with diabetes and possibly dementia, and the shared skepticism/resistance of well respected academic physicians such as JAMA lead Rita Redberg. I have felt even better about that decision since this editorial of hers some years back. Your comments welcome: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/14/opinion/dont-give-more-patients-statins.html
There are 80,000 articles on statin therapy in Pubmed. The preponderance of evidence proves the risk benefit ratio of statin is one of the best in medicine. I have prescribed enough statin to fill a railroad boxcar. I have never seen a lasting side effect of a statin in all of those patients. In patients with coronary artery disease like you, optimal medical therapy at the Kaiser Collaborative Coronary Care Service that included a statin reduced mortality by 70-90%. I take 40 mg of atorvastatin a day. I have no side effects. I would not think of missing it. Statins are antioxidant, anti-inflammatory medications that are an essential part of optimal medical therapy protocols that prolong healthy life.