Pravachol

Type: Product

Name: Pravachol

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 8 reports

Largest population-based study confirms patients taking some cholesterol-lowering drugs have increased risk of developing diabetes

By Leslie Shepherd - The largest study to date has confirmed that elderly patients who take certain high-potency cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins have an increased risk of developing diabetes relative to a lower-potency statin, pravastatin. ... [Published Health Canal - May 25 2013]

Entities: Diabetes, Statins, Pravachol, Patient

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

Co-Q10 May Offset Risk of Diabetes with Statin Use

Relative intensity of GLUT4 protein was decreased by 36% in simvastatin-treated adipocytes....Relative intensity of GLUT4 protein was decreased by 36% in simvastatin-treated adipocytes....A recent study conducted by researchers at Oregon State University ... [Published Diabetes in Control - 12 hours ago]

Entities: CoQ10, Simvastatin, Ezetimibe

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

Cholesterol not a good marker for people with kidney disease, says new research

Study recommends statin drugs as part of treatment to reduce heart attack and strokeA recent study from the University of Alberta has the potential to change how patients with kidney disease are treated in order to reduce their risk of heart attack and ... [Published St. Albert Gazette - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Cholesterol, Heart Disease, Lescol, Mevacor, Patient

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 13 reports

Lipitor

Could Statins Raise Diabetes Risk?

THURSDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Certain statins -- the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs -- may increase your chances of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.The risk was greatest for patients taking atorvastatin (brand name Lipitor), ... [Published Bio-Medicine - May 24 2013]

Entities: Statins, Diabetes, Crestor, Lipitor, ZOCOR

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 2 reports

Tata Steel Ltd

RIL, Tata Steel, JSW Steel and Glenmark Pharma may grab investors attention today

UK's BP Plc has offered to surrender a KG basin block after restrictions imposed by the Defence Ministry made oil and gas exploration practically impossible in it. BP along with Reliance Industries (RIL) had won the deep-sea KG-DWN-2005/2 or KG-D17 block ... [Published Indian-Commodity - May 24 2013]

Entities: Tata Steel Ltd, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, JSW Steel Ltd, Battery, Naval Mine

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Dr. Roach: Life quality should balance medicine use

Dear Dr. Roach: Several years ago my husband received a stent for a 99 percent blockage. What had kept him alive was a network of collateral arteries, thanks to a lifelong high level of exercise. His cardiologist put him on Crestor, and he became an old ... [Published Lubbock Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: prednisone, Pravachol, Crestor

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

ZOCOR

Pick Your Poison: Overweight or High Cholesterol

Filed under: Investing Overweight and have high cholesterol? You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri. Statins ... [Published EquityJungle - v0.1 - May 19 2013]

Entities: ZOCOR, Statins, Cholesterol

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

PRAVASTATIN SODIUMtablet [Apotex Corp.]

Updated Date: May 7, 2013 EST ... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - May 14 2013]

Entities: Apotex, Pravachol

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

PRAVASTATIN SODIUMtablet [Cardinal Health]

Updated Date: May 9, 2013 EST ... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - May 14 2013]

Entities: Pravachol, Cardinal Health Inc

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

PRAVASTATIN SODIUMtablet [International Labs, Inc.]

Updated Date: May 10, 2013 EST ... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - May 14 2013]

Entities: Pravachol

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

PRAVASTATIN SODIUMtablet [International Labs, Inc.]

Updated Date: May 10, 2013 EST ... [Published DailyMed Drug Label Updates for the last seven ... - May 10 2013]

Entities: Pravachol

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

Can I really get cheaper meds if I don't use my insurance?

Yes! Many retailers offer discount prices on generics that may be cheaper than your co-pay. We asked our Secret Shoppers to price common generic drugs at more than 200 pharmacies around the U.S. and they found some real deals if you use cash or credit ... [Published Consumer Reports - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Costco Wholesale Corporation, Drugs, Escitalopram, Mevacor

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The researchers concluded: "Clinicians should considers this risk when they are contemplating statin treatment for individual patients. Preferential use of pravastatin, and potentially fluvastatin or lovastatinmight be warranted."

Potent statins linked to higher diabetes risk [Published Diabetes.co.uk - May 24 2013]

In an editorial, doctors from the University of Turku in Finland say that "the overall benefit of statins still clearly outweighs the potential risk of incident diabetes." They also point out that because statins have been shown to decrease cardiovascular events in patients, they are an important factor in treatment

Statin Drugs May Increase Risk Of Diabetes [Published Medical News Today - May 24 2013]

...of medicine in the department of endocrinology, diabetes and bone disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. "There was no data regarding weight, ethnicity and family history -- all important risk factors for the development of diabetes."

Could Statins Raise Diabetes Risk? [Published WebMD - May 24 2013]

The authors of an accompanying editorial write: "These findings may be interpreted to support a true pharmacological class effect of statins on the development of diabetes. However, an alternative explanation — prescribing bias — cannot be ruled out. Patients with an unfavourable risk profile and higher risk of developing diabetes may have been more likely to be prescribed a more potent statin and at a higher dose."

Some higher-potency statins linked with diabetes [Published PJ Online - May 24 2013]

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