Statin

Statin Side Effects Are For Real

The GAUSS-3 trial, recently published in JAMA, examined cholesterol-lowering interventions in patients with a high LDL (>120 mg/dl) and a history of statin…
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AS Diagnosis Linked to CVD Risk

Relative risk for acute events observed in cohort study
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Increased arterial wall inflammation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis is reduced by statin therapy

BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease with involvement of axial and sacroiliac joints. In addition, patients with AS have increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which might be attributed to enhanced inflammatory activity of the arterial wall. In the presen…
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