'Bad Press' May Make Patients Stop Statins, Raise MI Risk

[Northerner]

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — When the media was dominated by negative news stories about statins, patients who were newly prescribed these drugs were 9% more likely to not refill their initial prescriptions (instead of refilling them), in a Danish national cohort study[1]. Moreover, compared with patients who complied with therapy, those who stopped taking a statin early on were 26% more likely to have an MI and 18% more likely to die, during follow-up.

The study, by Drs Sune Fallgaard Nielsen and Børge Grønne Nordestgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), was published December 2, 2015 in the European Heart Journal. Male sex, higher statin dose, living in a city, being non-Danish, and being prescribed a statin in more recent years were also linked with stopping statins.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/855657

I stopped them because of negative experiences, not negative press! 🙄

 

[AlisonM]

Me too! Plus, I'm a big girl (no, really!) and I have enough nouse to take what the press says with a large dose of salt and make up own tiny mind.

 

[trophywench]

Ditto .......

 

[Andy HB]

MI = Myocardial Infarction or Heart Attack, in case anyone was wondering.

I wondered whether it could also have stood for Mild Indigestion (any other suggestions)? 😉

 

[silentsquirrel]

MI = Myocardial Infarction or Heart Attack, in case anyone was wondering.

I wondered whether it could also have stood for Mild Indigestion (any other suggestions)? 😉

Massive Incapacity? No, that's the effect for many of us of taking them, not stopping them!

 

[trophywench]

Mindless Idiot ?

 

[AlisonM]

Mentalus Idiopathy

(OK, I invented that one)