Huffington Post In that regard, the current "epidemic" of non-melanoma skin cancers has been linked to the widespread use of statins, and particularly simvastatin in o...
Longboat Key News By and away it was atorvastatin . It took over half the new prescriptions. Rosuvastatin was second in terms of prescriptions. In other words, the drugs that caused thousands of excess cases of diabetes were the most popular and most frequently given.
separationsNOW.com Like millions of people around the world, I have been prescribed statins by my doctor to keep my cholesterol levels down. Not that my indulgent lifestyle was making them particularly high in the first place but it seems that they were starting to rise ...
Diabetes In Control Carter and colleagues summarized their results by stating, "We found that patients treated with atorvastatin , rosuvastatin, or simvastatin were at increased risk of new onset diabetes compared with those treated with pravastatin. No such risk was ... and more »
Irish Times The first group which has been completed covers variants of the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin , including the original branded drug Lipitor, which ...
Everyday Health In the current study, three-quarters of the participants were taking simvastatin (brand name Zocor) and about 20 percent were taking atorvastatin (Lipito...
Toronto NewsFIX Researchers in Cleveland, Ohio, report upon a comparison of taking either 40 milligrams of pravastatin and 80 milligrams of atorvastatin . This showed that those on the more intensive regime had lower levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL or 'bad') ... and more »
