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Statin drugs found to help prevent cancer in addition to lowering cholesterol

Posted: Jan 10th 2008 6:00PM by Brian White
Filed under: General Health

Statin drugs are normally associated with lowering high levels of 'bad' cholesterol (the LDL kind). U.S. researchers said this week that statins may also be helpful to the prevention of cancer.

In fact, the risk of developing cancer decreases by 25% in those veteran user of statin drugs compared to those who don't use the cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Well, that's good to know -- but we all should not rush out and start trying to get stain prescriptions to prevent cancer. In many cases, simple nutrition changes would help many lower cholesterol levels -- and prevent cancer too -- instead of taking man-made drugs. But, hey -- that's your choice.

Tags: cancer prevention, CancerPrevention, cholesterol, statin drug, StatinDrug

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1-10-2008 @ 9:28PM

Roger Cline said...

Note that this blog contains an error about cholesterol..."bad" cholesterol is labeled LDL cholesterol, whereas HDL cholesterol is a "good" cholesterol and actually guards against heart disease and other lipid diseases.

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