Eye Disorders Linked To Statin Drug Use In Some Patients
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
Statin medications are used to lower patients' cholesterol levels, thus helping prevent coronary heart disease, stroke and other deaths related to high cholesterol levels. Statin use has grown rapidly since 1992, and seems likely to increase in light of the recent, widely-reported Jupiter Study on statin benefits in patients with low cholesterol but elevated C-reactive protein.