What are some opposite words for statin?
Antonyms for statinstatin
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lipid-lowering medicine, lipid-lowering medication, statin drug, statinnoun
a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase
Synonyms:
statin drug, lipid-lowering medication, lipid-lowering medicine
How to use statin in a sentence?
Statins are one piece of the prevention wheel. Both USPSTF and ACC/AHA are not the only piece, there's diet, physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, blood pressure control, making sure you control diabetes or a risk for diabetes. All those aspects play into heart health. Statin medication is one way to reduce risk.
Would you really want to give them a statin when lifestyle could take care of the problem? we believe in careful, thoughtful use of statins.
The risk enhancers may increase a patient's short-term, 10-year risk, or in some cases, their lifetime risk of having a cardiovascular event, then those guidelines recommend that clinicians should err on the side of early treatment, something not considered in The Task Force The Task Force, but I do want to emphasize, even if clinicians were to take the more conservative The Task Force recommendations and follow them very, very aggressively, we definitely will see a population-level impact because of the statin therapy. The Task Force's really been studied for a very, very long time and now we know The Task Force works.
Overall, the serious risk for serious, adverse events is very low and so the risk benefit will usually be in favor of a statin for individuals at risk, statins can be very helpful for long-term risk reduction and with very minimal side effects and great benefits. It's one of those key medications that have changed the face of medicine.
I see heart patients that come in with terrible histories, multiple myocardial infarction, sometimes bypass surgery, many stents and they say, ‘Doctor, I’ve tried multiple statins, but whenever I take a statin, my muscles hurt, or they’re weak. I can’t walk upstairs. I just can’t tolerate these drugs,’ we do need alternatives for these patients.
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