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Posted on Aug 27, 2008, 8 p.m.
By Jeanelle Topping
Heart attack patients who stop taking statin are increasing their chances of dying, it has been claimed.
Heart attack patients who stop taking statin are increasing their chances of dying, it has been claimed.
In news that may be of interest to anti-aging physicians, those who cease to take the medication following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are actually doubling their mortality risk over the course of the next year, according to researchers at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre.
The study, which is published in the European Heart Journal, was conducted using the data of patients from the UK who had undergone the procedure three months previously and survived, Eurekalert notes.
Dr Daskalopoulou, of McGill's Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Medicine and the Division of Clinical Epidemiology at the health center, said: "Patients who used statins before an AMI and continued to take them after were 16 percent less likely to die over the next year than those who never used them."
In related news, researchers at Queen's University in Canada have claimed that Viagra may prevent the risk of heart attack.
