📚 noun • entry_id 41927
statin
/ˈstætɪn/
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estatina
Any of a class of drugs (chiefly lactones or pyrroles) that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.
Among the latest are reports of the ability of several leading statins to reduce deaths from common cancers and blunt the decline of memory with age.
The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and ro…
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