Doctors are well known effect when medication treatment of the disease can cause more. These insidious drug, no doubt, is attributed and for the treatment of heart disease - statins. Analysis of available data shows that taking them increases the risk of cancer and can lead to dementia.
Medications such statins inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis in the liver and used for the therapy of heart diseases. In the UK, the use of statins has been approved by the government, and the statistics reduce mortality from heart attacks really happy. According to the British Heart Foundation, the massive use of statins would reduce mortality from heart attacks by 40%.
However, earlier statements by physicians that the use of statins for there is no upper age limit, it seems, did not justify themselves. At a certain age take these drugs become unsafe: the study found that the use of statins elderly people (despite the fact that they actually reduce the likelihood of heart attacks at any age) increases the risk of cancer and can lead to dementia.
Monitoring the effect of statins on the body of people who turned milestone in life expectancy (70-82 years), showed that statins increase the likelihood of dying from cancer or dementia. At the same time, prescribing physicians often do not warn patients about the possibility of such unpleasant side effects. Previously, scientists have proved the link between statins and memory loss, as well as the emergence of depression. (READ MORE)
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