Is It Prudent To Increase The Dose of Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs?
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 5:41 am
http://canadafreepress.com/article/is-it-prudent-to-increase-the-dose-of-cholesterol-lowering-drugs
Colin Dormut, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, participated in a study of excessive medication. He reports that during an 11 year period over two million patients’ charts were examined to see if kidneys were affected by the long-term use of cholesterol-lowering drugs (CLDs).
The researchers focused on high potency CLDs such as Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor. They discovered that patients who were prescribed these higher strength drugs had a 34 percent higher risk of being hospitalized due to acute kidney injury.