Synonyms for statin
statin

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1. 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

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1. List of paraphrases for "statin":

   staten

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1. Daniel Bloomfield:

   We believe Improve-It showed that ezetimibe in combination with a statin offers a significant benefit to high-risk patients with coronary heart disease.

2. Corey Bradley:

   It is possible that some people did not remember being offered a statin, so we may have over-estimated the percent who were never offered one. However, we believe that if the patient did not remember the conversation, the discussion likely was not an effective one.

3. Amit Khera:

   Statins can cause muscle aches, but even if it's as high as one in 10 who get muscle aches, that means 9 in 10 will not. For the vast majority, that won't happen, and it generally goes away when we stop the statin.

4. Neil Stone:

   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.

5. Bruce Neal:

   Patients with sleep apnea, who are often at increased cardiovascular risk, need rigorous management with other indicated therapies, such as blood pressure lowering, statins, and antithrombotic drugs, i think the most interesting finding of the meta-analysis is that the best estimate of the effect of obstructive sleep apnea treatment on risk of major adverse cardiovascular events is very similar to the reduction in risk seen with aspirin, beta-blockers, or statin medications.